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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."
These extortionists really need to be taken out. It's high time mossad style tactics are employed against these black hat hacker thugs. These bastards are hiding behind borders, and what they are doing should be treated as an act of agression.
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*