MS Office Security Watch

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The worm is in a file with the Microsoft Word icon. When run, it creates several copies of itself on the infected system and keys in the Windows registry. It is easy to recognize when a computer has been infected by this worm, …
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Panda Securityâ??s weekly report on viruses and intruders

Late yesterday, Microsoft confirmed in a security advisory (947563) that hackers are targeting a significant vulnerability in multiple versions of Excel. The vulnerability appears to be a previously unknown zero-day, and a successful …
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Hackers Targeting Microsoft Zero-Day Excel Flaw

The two organizations said on Tuesday the collaboration was aimed at producing a free, downloadable plug-in that would translate documents based on Open XML — the default file-saving format in Microsoft Office 2007 — into DAISY XML.”
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Bullet Points v7

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