Months-Old Excel Exploit Goes Public
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| Microsoft labeled CVE-2008-0081 "critical" on Excel 2000, and "important" on
| Excel 2002 and 2003.
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| Microsoft first acknowledged the Excel bug more than two months ago, when it
| confirmed that hackers were attacking Windows machines via Excel. At the
| time, the company's security team characterized the attacks as "targeted and
| not widespread."
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143786-pg,1/article.html
Later they wonder why 4 out of 10 Windows PCs is controlled by a criminal.
That's roughly 320,000,000 zombie PCs on the Net, at any given time.
Recent:
Microsoft fixes a dozen Office flaws in four patches; all are critical
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| Microsoft today released its March 2008 security bulletin, which includes
| four bulletins, all deemed critical by Microsoft.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9891047-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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