Monday, August 14, 2006

Microsoft Office under siege

What started as an amusing eBay listing of an Excel vulnerability for sale has developed into <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2002421,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL081406EOAD">an all-out hacker assault on Microsoft Office</A> applications. Security researchers and malicious hackers have zeroed in on the desktop productivity suite, using specialized "fuzzing" tools to find a wide range of critical vulnerabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file formats. The upsurge in reported Office flaws has put Microsoft on high alert for targeted zero-day attacks that have all the characteristics of characteristics of corporate espionage--highly targeted and using Trojan horse programs to drop keyloggers and data theft malware programs, according to information from anti-virus vendor Symantec.

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