Discover new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office packages

Just released security patches two weeks ago, but last Friday (February 2) Microsoft had to continue to warn of another serious security risk in its Office software.

This time the goal is Excel. According to Microsoft, this spreadsheet software can be hacked through a newly discovered security error. Exel versions of previous Office software will also affect.

Microsoft's security adviser said the company is investigating reports that hackers have exploited the vulnerability in several attacks. This vulnerability will affect a wide range of Office versions: Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2004 version for Mac.

Over the years, hackers are increasingly inclined to exploit security vulnerabilities on Office software. Their tricks are quite similar, which is to send emails that seem reasonable to deceive users, for example, to open maliciously installed Office documents. When these documents are opened, hackers will be free to install information mining software on the victim's computer.

At this point perhaps Microsoft has not had enough time to provide a patch for Excel in the Office 2007 upgrade expected to ship on February 13, but certainly, this giant has to embark on the standard. have other patches for Office software. During the past few months, there have been four other serious vulnerabilities discovered in the Microsoft Word editor, but so far none of them have been patched .

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