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Rigged Excel documents making the rounds

2008-03-12 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b88dec in Network World on Security
 
Security experts have warned that malicious Microsoft Excel documents are making the rounds via e-mail, exploiting an unpatched Excel vulnerability that has been known publicly since January
 
Tags: rounds, security experts, excel vulnerability, publicly, e-mail, january
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft warns of new Excel vulnerability

2008-01-16 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b66084 in Network World on Security
 
Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability that lies within several versions of the Excel spreadsheet program, Microsoft warned late Tuesday
 
Tags: excel spreadsheet program, vulnerability, microsoft, versions, lies, attackers, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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Office Excel at risk from attack

2008-01-17 17:22:50 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
Microsoft has issued a security advisory that malicious attackers are targeting versions of its Office Excel with vulnerabilities
 
Tags: office excel, malicious attackers, security advisory, versions, vulnerabilities, microsoft
 
 
 
 
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Fix for weeks-old Excel flaw likely on Tuesday

2008-02-11 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b40038 in Network World on Security
 
Microsoft's security updates Tuesday will probably include a fix for a vulnerability in Excel that has been exploited by attackers for several weeks, a researcher said today. But he told users not to expect a fix for another bug that the company acknowledged more than two months ago
 
Tags: fix, months ago, tuesday, excel, weeks, attackers, include, users, bug
 
 
 
 
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Excel risks go undetected, businesses warned

2008-03-12 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b43c74 in Network World on Security
 
Businesses where staff use Excel spreadsheets to develop applications quickly and cheaply aren't paying enough attention to the operational risks they run -- especially when the spreadsheets link to back-end systems
 
Tags: develop applications quickly, businesses, spreadsheets link, back-end systems, excel spreadsheets, operational risks, attention, staff, cheaply
 
 
 
 
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Buggy Microsoft Excel patch causes bad math

2008-03-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
If you installed one of those Excel security patches issued by Microsoft earlier this week, you may want to double-check your math
 
Tags: excel security patches, math, microsoft, double-check, week
 
 
 
 
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Months-old Excel exploit goes public

2008-03-24 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An exploit that targets a flaw in multiple versions of Microsoft's Excel software is now widely available, prompting Symantec to urge customers to apply a fix for the vulnerability released last week
 
Tags: exploit, multiple versions, urge customers, excel software, targets, symantec, widely, week, fix
 
 
 
 
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Hackers seize on Excel vulnerability

2008-03-26 12:34:04 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Symantec researchers said they've spotted a Web site that tries to exploit computers lacking one of the recently issued patches for Excel
 
Tags: exploit computers, excel, web site, symantec researchers, recently, patches
 
 
 
 
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Hackers seize on Excel vulnerability

2008-03-26 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473394 in Network World on Security
 
Researchers at Symantec said late Tuesday they've spotted a Web site that tries to exploit computers lacking one of the recently issued patches for versions of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program
 
Tags: excel spreadsheet program, web site, exploit computers, recently, symantec, researchers, tuesday, microsoft, versions
 
 
 
 
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Excel Spreadsheet on the web exposes Army officers and civilians

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2008-04-13 20:23:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog