Microsoft has confirmed that the Office suite is once again under fire at the beginning of 2008. However, it seems that attacks only target the Excel component in a variety of Office versions. Concomitantly with revealing that a Critical, Zero-Day vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild, the Redmond com... |
16 January 2008 02:56 GMT |
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The Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment tool is designed to bulletproof Office 2003, but it comes with the inherent shortcomings of an extra layer of security, added artificially like another limb on a Frankenstein creation. Security was not the focus of the Office 2003 productivity suite, not in the sen... |
23 May 2007 04:15 GMT |
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The Office 2003 productivity suite has received a brand new extra panoply designed to shield users from malformed files. Microsoft has announced yesterday, May 21, 2007 the availability of the Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE). There has been talk about MOICE for quite a while, and the beginning of May s... |
22 May 2007 05:15 GMT |
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The Office 2003 is a victim of its own success. Much in the same way as the Windows platform, Office offers an excellent target but also a vector for attacks, outside of the exploits taking advantage of its flaws. Still, this status quo, fueled by the suite's ubiquity is about to change. Microsoft is right on tr... |
10 May 2007 07:28 GMT |
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