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Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack
Guglio writes "Eweek has a story about a new, undocumented Excel flaw that is being used in a targeted attack against an unnamed business. The latest zero-day attack comes just two days after Patch Tuesday (coincidence?) and less than a month after a very similar, 'super, super targeted attack' against business interests overseas. The back-to-back zero-day attacks closely resemble each other and suggest that well-organized criminals are conducting corporate espionage using critical flaws purchased from underground hackers."
I realize that, but any half-way competent developer would be bounds checking everything they do. Oh wait... this is $BIGBUSINESS so managers dictate how long a program takes to write...
I mean it's simple, before you copy or read data you make sure your destination is the right size. It helps not to write spaghetti code too I guess...
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Insightful? This is a completely unsubstantiated claim.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
they sky is blue!
;) and hackers are getting better at finding them now
water is wet!
these microsoft is being exploited again articles get kinda funny when you see one every few days
and a critical one every 1-3 weeks
cant even go a month without major exploits on windows
its either a sign of completely lousy untrustable crap code, or that they are purposely leaving backdoors in there for some evil purpose
*hugs ubuntu*