Microsoft leaves Word zero-day holes unpatched
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| Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for vulnerabilities in its
| Windows and Office software, but left several known Word
| zero-day flaws without a patch.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6148687.html
You then wonder why servers get hijacked, personal data stolen, and SPAM
occupies over 92% of the total volume of E-mail traffic. Everyone suffers,
not just Windows users.
Related:
Microsoft's Achilles' Heel: Office
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| To put last year's 41 critical Office patches into perspective,
| consider that Microsoft shipped a total of 37 critical updates for
| all of its software products in 2005. None of the patch or
| vulnerability numbers cited in this story takes into account
| three still-unpatched vulnerabilities present in Microsoft Word,
| two of which Microsoft has acknowledged that criminals are
| actively exploiting.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/microsofts_achilles_heel_offic_1.html#more
Third exploit for Word released
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| Hackers have released attack code that exploits a critical vulnerability
| in Microsoft's Word software -- the third such bug to be disclosed in
| the past week.
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http://www.it-networks.org/Security/121.html
Triple threat targets Word users
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| Users of Microsoft Word are being urged to be careful as malicious
| hackers target the word processing software.
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| Three unpatched bugs in Word have been uncovered in the last few
| weeks and two are already being exploited by attackers.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6196213.stm
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