Microsoft Office Security Bulletins Affect Excel and SharePoint
Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Microsoft Office (for Windows and Mac) and Office SharePoint Server How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including...
View ArticleVulnerabilities in Word and Excel Document Parsing
Severity: High 10 August, 2010 Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac (specifically Word and Excel) How an attacker exploits them: By...
View ArticleMalicious Office Documents Could Open Doors into Your Network
Severity: High 12 April, 2011 Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Most current versions of Microsoft Office, and the components that ship with it How an attacker exploits it: Typically by enticing...
View ArticleMicrosoft Black Tuesday: Updates for Mangled Office Documents and Malicious...
Unless you’re one of the eagle-eyed viewers that caught Microsoft’s slip last Friday, today is the first day you get to see this month’s batch of MS product patches. As expected, Microsoft only...
View ArticleOffice Document Parsing Problems Cause a Predicament
Severity: High 13 September, 2011 Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Most current versions of Microsoft Office and its components, as well as Office SharePoint and Groove servers and products. How...
View ArticleFive Office Updates Primarily Patch Document Handling Vulnerabilities
Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Most current versions of Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac, and related products like Publisher How an attacker exploits them: Typically, by enticing you to...
View ArticleWord, Visio, and Excel Suffer from Document Handling Vulnerabilities
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Most current versions of Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac, and related products like Visio Viewer and the Office Compatibility Packs How an...
View ArticleMicrosoft Black Tuesday: Critical Updates Affect Windows 8 and More
It’s Microsoft Patch Day and I have a question for you. How quick are you at applying software updates? Do you jump on them within the day; a week, or are you months behind? If you are one of the many...
View ArticleFour Critical Spreadsheet Handling Flaws in Excel
Severity: Medium Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Excel (and Office) 2003 through 2010 for Mac and PC (and related components) How an attacker exploits it: By enticing one of your users to open a...
View ArticleNasty RTFs Nudge Word Into Submission
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Word (and Office) 2003 through 2010 for Windows (and related components) How an attacker exploits it: By enticing one of your users to open a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Black Tuesday: Security Flaws in a Menagerie of Products
Though today’s Patch Day might seem pretty average as far as the number of security bulletins released, it does cover a rather eclectic range of Microsoft products. In fact, a few of the updates affect...
View ArticleMicrosoft Black Tuesday: Patch Windows Kernel-mode Driver and .NET First
Microsoft’s July Patch Day is live and ready for download, so go grab those updates. I recommend you work on the Windows Kernel-mode driver and .NET one’s first. According to their summary post,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Black Tuesday: The Largest Patch Day of 2013 (So Far)
Today’s Patch Day is the largest so far for 2013, with Microsoft releasing 13 security bulletins. While it doesn’t break any records (that Patch Day was probably the 17 bulletin one in April 2011),...
View ArticleOffice Updates Fix SharePoint, Outlook, Word, and More
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office related products, including SharePoint, Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and other components How an attacker exploits...
View ArticleMicrosoft Black Tuesday: Install the IE Update First
If you follow the blog, you’re surely aware that today’s Microsoft Patch Day; and it’s an especially important one. Though it doesn’t set any records, Microsoft has released an update to fix a fairly...
View ArticleSharepoint, Excel, and Word Security Updates
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office related products, including SharePoint, Word, and Excel How an attacker exploits them: Varies. Typically by enticing users to open...
View ArticleTrio of Office Updates Fix SharePoint Flaw & ASLR Bypass
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office and related products, including SharePoint How an attacker exploits them: Varies. Typically by enticing users to visit malicious...
View ArticleOffice Updates Include Patches for SharePoint Vulnerabilities
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office and related products like SharePoint Server How an attacker exploits them: Varies. Typically by enticing users to open or interact...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Last Patch Day Until 2015; Three Critical Patches
It’s that time of the month again; Microsoft Patch Day. Yesterday, Microsoft posted their regular batch of security updates, so it’s time you patch your Windows systems. I’ll summarize some Patch Day...
View ArticlePoodle’s Back – WSWiR Episode 132
Another week, another batch of information security (infosec) news. Would you like a quick summary, rather than hunting it down yourself? No problem! Just check out our weekly video every Friday....
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