PowerPoint ZeroDay Vulnerability Exploited 140
whitehatlurker writes to mention a WashingtonPost.com article about another unpatched flaw with Microsoft Office. The bug, part of the PowerPoint software, has already been used in the wild, and may be connected to an industrial espionage case. From the article: "This undocumented flaw does not appear to have been addressed in any of the 13 security updates Microsoft shipped this week to mend a variety of problems in Office software. As Security Fix and others have noted, some of the work Microsoft has done in hardening the security of the Windows operating system has forced the bad guys to look for lower-hanging fruit in applications that run on top of Windows, so we may see more Office flaws under attack."
Re:My world is crumbling! (Score:5, Funny)
Hastily written karma whoring frist prost on Slashdot? Say it ain't so!
Re:The more vulnerabilities the better? (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. This is why we need to get these security vulnerabilities in MS Office to work in OpenOffice, ASAP. It's all about compatibility, baby.
Seriously, though, I don't agree with the quote. Of course people want compatibility. But they also want security. Using MS office is a tradeoff: more compatibility, less security. When the tradeoff gets less comfortable, rational people will reconsider their options.
Good (Score:3, Funny)
Tom
Re:Do you really need MS Office? (Score:5, Funny)
I, too, have become so much safer since I turned off my antivirus software and instead relied on good old, tried-and-tested intuition to detect malicious software and vulnerabilities.
"Office!" [Snorts] (Score:4, Funny)