Tag: word
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Throwback Thursday: ‘In the Beginning was the Word…’
Microsoft has recently introduced a new feature to Office 2016 : the ability to block macros,in an attempt to curb the spread of macro malware, which is once again on the rise . Macro viruses first appeared in 1995, at a time when there were over 100 times as many DOS viruses in existence as…
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CVE-2012-0158 continues to be used in targeted attacks
30-month old vulnerability still a popular way to infect systems. If all you have to worry about are zero-day vulnerabilities, you have got things pretty well sorted. Although it is true that sometimes zero-days are being used to deliver malware (such as the recent use of CVE-2014-4114 by the SandWorm group), in many cases even…
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Access flaw exploited via Word
Microsoft’s employees hunting vulnerabilities instead of Easter eggs. A buffer overrun vulnerability in Microsoft ‘s Jet Database Engine , the underlying database behind Microsoft Access among others, is currently being used in a limited number of targeted attacks. The victim is sent two files as an email attachment, possibly combined in a ZIP file, one…
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Word for Mac exploit spotted
Patch Tuesday flaw targeted by vulnerability. A vulnerability in the Apple Mac version of Microsoft Word , covered by a patch in this month’s Patch Tuesday security update, has been subject of an attempted exploit seen by researchers at Symantec . The exploit document was observed to crash most versions of Word on Windows ,…