Thursday, April 10, 2014

Just previewing email can give attackers control of your PC, Microsoft warns

<p>Attackers are actively exploiting a newly discovered Microsoft Word vulnerability that could be used to gain remote access of your PC, Microsoft warned Mondayand even worse, the exploit can be triggered by opening or merely previewing a malicious email using Outlook's default settings.</p><p>The attack is delivered using booby-trapped Rich Text (RTF) files. Accessing or previewing a poisoned file with Word grants the attacker the same rights as the current user.</p><p>Making matters worse, Word is the default document viewer in Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2013.</p><p>Currently, Microsoft is only aware of the limited, targeted attacks against Word 2010, but the same vulnerability affects Word 2013, Word 2013 RT, Word 2007, Word 2003, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, and related programs like Word Compatibility Viewer and Word Automation Services on Microsoft SharePoint Server.</p><p><a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/2134531/data-protection/just-previewing-email-can-give-attackers-control-of-your-pc--microsoft-warns.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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