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Information about claims about unchecked boundary condition vulnerability in Word

I wanted to take a moment and pass on some information about a claim that was posted late Friday about a possible unchecked boundary condition vulnerability in Microsoft Word. The claim was that this could enable an attacker to execute malicous code by convincing a user to open a malformed Word document...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-10-2006
Filed under: Office, Security
Second New Flaw Discovered in Excel

As Microsoft scrambles to fix one security flaw in its Excel spreadsheet program, security researchers have uncovered another. First disclosed by Symantec on Monday, the problem could cause Excel to crash after a malicious file is opened. Read more…

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-20-2006
Filed under: Office, Security
If you've been reading the news...

If you’ve been reading the news, you’ve read about Microsoft working to take away Admin rights from their employees’ computers. Well, it seems a little bit ironic that one of the System Requirements of Windows Live Local for Outlook, is <drum roll please>: Administrator access...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-28-2006
Filed under: Office, Security, Windows
Word 0-day, recommended defenses

The diary about the targeted attacks using a zero-day exploit against Word triggered a lot of questions about how to defend against such an attack. We understand that many organizations can not do without Word documents, so here a few ideas on how to defend against these attacks. http://isc.sans.org...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-24-2006
Filed under: Office, Security
The Microsoft folks love us...

Here’s some goodness for the myITforum.com crowd. There’s some reformatting to do, but the Microsoft folks have given us access to the vLabs… http://www.myitforum.com/vlabs/msvlabs.asp

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-08-2006
Filed under: Messaging, Office, Patch Management, Scripting, Security, Software, Systems Management, Windows, Windows Mobile, Training
Next month for PowerPoint 0-day flaw fix

Microsoft is readying a fix for a zero-day flaw in PowerPoint that is being exploited in targeted cyberattacks, the company said Monday. Read the rest…

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-17-2006
Filed under: Office, Security
MOICE is available

Release of Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) and File Block Functionality for Microsoft Office Read more…

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-22-2007
Filed under: Office, Security
MS Outlook versions vulnerable to the VML exploit

Vulnerable versions of Outlook

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-23-2006
Filed under: Office, Patch Management, Security

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