Microsoft launched a blog on Thursday, promising to use the online bulletin board to keep its customers abreast of the "juicy spill-over technical stuff" found by the company's vulnerability researchers.

The blog, titled "Security Vulnerability Research and Defense," will host a variety of technical elements -- such as complicated workarounds, debugging techniques and information on vulnerability triage -- that do not regularly make it into Microsoft's security bulletins, the company stated. The software giant posted two analyses of vulnerabilities patched earlier this month.

"During our vulnerability research, we discover a lot of interesting technical information," a Microsoft researcher stated on the blog. "We’re going to share as much of that information as possible here because we believe that helping you understand vulnerabilities, workarounds, and mitigations will help you more effectively secure your organization."

The blog is the latest change in the way that Microsoft informs its users about security flaws and patches. In May, the software titan modified the layout of it bulletins and started giving more information about upcoming advisories through its Advanced Notification Service. Microsoft has found that the number of high severity vulnerabilities slightly decreased in the first six months of 2007.

Earlier this month, Microsoft published its final regularly scheduled patches for the year, bringing the total number of bulletins published by the company to 69 in 2007.

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