Redmond Magazine

More IT Grief: Office Exploit Broadly Released

Code that can exploit a Rich Text Format flaw in Microsoft Office has been published, according to a Microsoft announcement late last month. The good news is that IT pros who applied Microsoft ...
Computerworld

Office exploit hits the street

Attack code that targets a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite has gone public, a security company said today as it urged users to update immediately. The exploit, which ...
eWeek

Microsoft Patches Critical Zero-Day Exploit in Office Suite

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. As promised, Microsoft released a patch today that fixes a ...
Ars Technica

Install fix to stop in-the-wild Windows and Office exploit, Microsoft warns

Hackers are exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and Office software that allows computers to be infected with malware, the company warned in advisories published Tuesday ...
ZDNet

Microsoft releases Office exploit isolation tool

Microsoft has released a file conversion tool that stops exploits rigged into .doc, .xls and .ppt files from infecting Office 2003 users. The tool, called MOICE (Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion ...
CNET

Microsoft hopes iPad users won't exploit Office loophole

Microsoft wants users to pay for its $100 Office 365 subscription. Turns out, though, that it can be bypassed for Office apps on iPad. Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, ...
CNET

New exploit uses old Office vulnerability for OS X malware delivery

While this means of exploiting Mac systems via Microsoft Office is old and has been patched, this marks the first time Office documents have been used to exploit OS X systems. Topher, an avid Mac user ...
Computerworld

Office 2.0 vendors want to exploit Microsoft Office, not overthrow it

Microsoft Corp.’s mantra that “software and a service” — not software as a service (SaaS) — is the future of the industry has long been scorned by Web 2.0 start-ups or characterized as predictably ...
InfoWorld

Office exploit hits the street

Attack code takes advantage of one of two flaws in the Office suite fixed by Microsoft in its MS08-016 security update Attack code that targets a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft’s Office ...