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Vulnerabilities and Office Versions

2008-12-01 07:19:33 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Office. Some of the great attacks of all time (remember LoveLetter?) have been through Office bugs, and I believe most targeted attacks over the last few years have utilized vulnerabilities in Office document parsers. That's why it's encouraging that Microsoft has done a much better job in making current versions of Office secure, as David...
 
Tags: office versions, office, microsoft office, versions, office secure, office bugs, vulnerabilities, office document parsers, accompany office
 
 
 
 
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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk

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2008-02-28 16:10:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Office (UK The Home Office is the government department responsible for leading the national effort to protect the public from terrorism, crime and anti-social behaviour." - Source Home Office About Us page Contractor/Consultant/Branch Leapfrog Computers Victims N/A Number Affected N/A Types of Data Unknown - labeled "Home Office -...
 
Tags: home office, disk, laptop, source home office, home office spokesman, director lee bevan, lee bevan, highly confidential, leapfrog computers
 
 
 
 
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Malware and Office Documents Joining Forces

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2008-07-14 11:20:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...office files as documents, presentations, spreadsheets and PDF files, are the most widely abused ones in targeted attacks, which when backed up with enough personal information and take into consideration the time of their attack if the social engineering campaign is either going to be based on a current/upcoming event, or on an event...
 
Tags: document, document macros, support, enable support, macro, macro viruses, support vba macros, exe-file, extract exe-file
 
 
 
 
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The Arizona Office of the Auditor General finds plenty of holes

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2008-06-23 12:28:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Office of the Auditor General has conducted a performance audit of information technology security at Arizona State University (ASU), the University of Arizona (UA), and Northern Arizona University (NAU) pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S.) 41-2958." "ASUs, UAs, and NAU's Web-based applications are vulnerable. Auditors were able to...
 
Tags: information, information security officer, personal information, information security staffs, confidential information, information security, university information, sensitive information, sensitive
 
 
 
 
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Office 2003 SP2 Approaching End of Life

2008-09-22 20:45:30 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Office Sustained Engineering blog reports that support for Service Pack 2 for Office 2003 is coming to a close. Microsoft's support lifecycle policy for service packs states that they get one year of support after a successor service pack is released. It's about a year since Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 was released and Microsoft is...
 
Tags: office, microsoft office, successor service pack, service pack, support lifecycle policy, policy, support, october patch tuesday, patch tuesday
 
 
 
 
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Windows, Office, Sharepoint, Among Products Getting Updates This Patch Tuesday

2008-12-04 14:34:54 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Office and server-based products. One for Visual Basic affects only FrontPage and Project in Office, but also Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic.NET and Visual FoxPro. One fix for Microsoft Word is rated Critical for Office 2000 and 2007 (with or without SP1), but Important most everywhere else, including Office 2003. An Excel fix is Critical only...
 
Tags: products, windows, server products, server, sharepoint server, windows vista, windows server, visual basic affects, visual basic
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Post Office to Enable Wholesale Surveillance of Mail

2008-02-21 06:26:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...office is launching a new barcode on first class mail that will enable the sender to track mail through the system : With the new bar code, companies will be able to track mail delivery and know when their customers got a bill, solicitation or product, and the Postal Service will have another way of checking that mail is being delivered on...
 
Tags: mail, sends mail, track mail delivery, class mail, post office, track mail, customers respond, customers, news article
 
 
 
 
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Office 2008 installation mishaps

2008-02-29 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472bc0 in Network World on Security
 
Microsoft kicked off 2008 by releasing a new version of its Office 2008 productivity suite. But if you've just installed the new version of the venerable $400 Office suite, stay alert for these issues
 
Tags: office, office suite, version, productivity suite, stay alert, issues, venerable, microsoft
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft To Deliver Office Hotfixes in Scheduled Cumulative Updates

2008-07-01 17:34:40 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Office Sustained Engineering blog, that they will be moving away from the current weekly schedule for the release of Office hotfixes. Instead, every 2 months a cumulative update will be released. The first such update will appear in August, 2008. The blog announcing the development does not go deeply into the reasons for the change, other...
 
Tags: office hotfixes, office, hotfixes, choose hotfixes, cumulative, current weekly schedule, individual hotfixes, schedule, install