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davidh
June 17th, 2006, 08:41 PM
"Microsoft June 15 confirmed that a new, undocumented flaw in its widely used Excel spreadsheet program was being used in an attack against an unnamed target.

"The company's warning comes less than a month after a code-execution hole in Microsoft Word was exploited in what is described as a "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."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1977893,00.asp

DH

Judy G. Russell
June 17th, 2006, 10:23 PM
well-organized criminals are conducting corporate espionage using critical flaws purchased from underground hackers

Gee... what a surprise...