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Microsoft confirms Word attacks

Microsoft confirms Word attacksNo, in Jet>>Microsoft has confirmed reports of vulnerability in WordGrammatical issue aside, the vulnerability is in the Jet engine, not Word. Word is the vector.Vista is NOT vulnerable: yet another reason to use Vistayet another reason to use VistaRE: Microsoft confirms Word attacksThere is NO reason to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft confirms Word attack, Microsoft Confirms, Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2008-03-24

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Tags: Patches, Operating systems, Apple QuickTime, Apple iPhone, security bug, Apple Inc., vulnerability, security, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Businesses struggling with Adobe PDF security advice

Adobe has set a May 12 date for the delivery of patches to cover a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1 software products. An official security advisory from Adobe confirms the severity of the vulnerability and reiterates the advice for users...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Vulnerability, JavaScript, Scripting Languages, Security, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all

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Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin IS, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, kernel, Microsoft confirms MinWin, Microsoft Confirms

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Microsoft confirms Word attacks

Microsoft has confirmed reports of vulnerability in Word that allows an attacker to exploit a system via the Microsoft Jet Database Engine, which shares data with Access, Visual Basic and third party applications. Microsoft in its advisory said the potential for attack is "very limited." Reports of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Attack, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-24

MS Outlook flaw adds new twist to URI handling saga

For months, Microsoft has taken a firm hands-off approach to the URI protocol handling vulnerability saga, shrugging off suggestions that there's a flaw in Windows that needs to be fixed. Now comes word that two Microsoft products -- Outlook Express 6 and Outlook 2000 -- have joined...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, MS Outlook Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook, Web Browsers, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Internet, Enterprise Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-10-10

Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw

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Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, speech recognition, FUD, microphone, headphone, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-01-31

Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw

After my initial reports on the first Vista Remote Exploit, a Microsoft spokesperson responded to me with the following message.Thanks for your patience as I looked into this. I heard back from the folks at the MSRC, and they let me know that Microsoft is investigating public reports of a...

Tags: Desktop, News, Security, speech recognition, Vista

Blog posts 2007-01-31

A fifth MS Word zero-day?

Virus trackers at Symantec have raised an alert for what is believed to be a fifth unpatched -- and previously unknown -- security flaw affecting Microsoft Word. The company is working with Microsofts security response center to sort out whether this is unrelated to the four other Word zero-days...

Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, security

Blog posts 2007-01-30

Amazon hits back at IBM over patents

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Tags: irony, Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., patent, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-15