Security problems in Excel

Posted by Vic Laurie
June 22, 2006

I don’t know how many of you use the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program, but reports keep coming about security problems. So far this week, there are three. PC World has a report

Excel users have one more reason to worry. A hacker on Tuesday published code that takes advantage of an unpatched flaw in the Microsoft spreadsheet software, the third such exploit to be disclosed in the past week.

This attack could be used to run unauthorized software on a PC, but it requires that the victim first be tricked into opening an Excel document, according to an alert published on the Securitytracker.com Web site.

Security, Software

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