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Black Hat Talk Demonstrates New Document Exploits

Posted by timothy on from the send-you-this-file-in-order-to-have-your-advice dept.

darthcamaro writes "Remember the days of the viruses embedded in email attachments? They're coming back, according to a pair of researcher talking at Black Hat this week: '"If you have installed all Microsoft Office patches and there are no 0 day vulnerabilities, will it be safe to open a Word or Excel document?" TT asked the audience. "The answer is no."'"

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  1. Is this really news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anybody worth their salt knows that any attachment can be dangerous. You can hide all sorts of things in them. Especially for files that allow arbitrary things to be embedded in them, like Word documents.