Vulnerability found in Microsoft Excel.
(InfoWorld) - “A new vulnerability has been found in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program, just a few days after the company fixed problems with several of its applications in its monthly patch distribution.”
“One customer reported an attack using the vulnerability, which comes from an e-mail with a malicious Excel document attached, wrote [...]
I recently mentioned that Chris Schmidt was going to give a brief talk at O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference. He was a featured character in the Wired News article on the conference, too. Congrats, Chris!
Brian Livingston minces no words in his weekly Windows Secrets newsletter lead article, “Genuine Advantage is Microsoft spyware .” He goes on to say:
No PC-using company that values security and reliability can allow a program like WGA to send data to a distant server, download additional software, morph its behavior, or remotely change the functionality [...]
