Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Microsoft Office: Under siege

Opinion
Jul 25, 20061 min

In case you didn’t know it, your copy of Office has more holes than a slice of baby Swiss.

The Register reports Office developers aren’t finding much time to develop as they’re constantly plugging the holes and whatnot in Office.

Reports El Reg: “The deluge of vulnerabilities for the Office programs – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and, for professional users, Access – signals a shift in the focus of vulnerability research and underscores the impact of flaw-finding tools known as fuzzers.

“The vulnerabilities in Office also highlight the threat that such files, if remained unchecked, can pose to a corporate network. Not since the days of macro viruses and Melissa have Office files posed such a danger to computer security.”

A good read here.

Via The Register