The News Review:
- Is your cell phone safe?
- Microsoft to Support Emerging Chinese Document Format.
- Microsoft Word Makes Exploit Comeback
- Area schools wind up activities
- Microsoft reportedly to support Chinese document standard
- SmartPhoneToday > News > View ffice 2007 Files with Documents…
- MessageLabs Intelligence Targeted Attack Report: Criminal Ring…
Is your cell phone safe?
Rediff – May 21, 2007
If you’ve given extensive details about one of your friends the finder might have a picture an address and three numbers. Furthermore using details from your correspondence they’ll be able to learn your most private information. Many individuals use these options to categorise expenditures and to save important personal and professional documents. Also USB capabilities allow users to use their phones as instant .
Microsoft to Support Emerging Chinese Document Format.
Free with registration – eWeek – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 21, 2007
The emerging UF standard is being developed by the Chinese ffice Software Work Group led by the Ministry of Information Industry as well as suppliers of Chinese office software suites and academic institutions such as the Beijing Information Technology Institute. “This pen XML-UF translator will be similar to the pen XML-DF translator that has already been developed and will follow the same model” Jean Paoli Microsoft’s general manager for interoperability and XML architecture told eWEEK. Click here [link omitted] to read more about the release of the pen XML translator. CPYRIGHT 2007 Ziff Davis Media Inc.
Microsoft Word Makes Exploit Comeback
BIS – BIS – May 21, 2007
There was also a decline in attacks using. 95% of targeted attacks in April 2007 used Microsoft ffice suite exploits. Microsoft Word has once again become the most common exploit vector with an increase in attacks using Word documents that contain SmartTag exploit CVE-2006-2492. These attacks increased dramatically since March 2007 from four attacks going to four single recipients to 66 attacks going to 273 recipients in April. Although PowerPoint attacks decreased in April those attacks that were made using exploit CVE-2006-0022 were made by Taiwanese criminal gang ‘Task Briefing’ named for the subject line in the e-mails they use. The ring made six attacks this month sending 61 e-mails accounting for 10% of all targeted e-mails in April the longest of which lasted 45 hours… Microsoft Word has once again become the most common exploit vector with an increase in attacks using Word documents that contain SmartTag exploit CVE-2006-2492. These attacks increased dramatically since March 2007 from four attacks going to four single recipients to 66 attacks going to 273 recipients in April. Although PowerPoint attacks decreased in April those attacks that were made using exploit CVE-2006-0022 were made by Taiwanese criminal gang ‘Task Briefing’ named for the subject line in the e-mails they use. The ring made six attacks this month sending 61 e-mails accounting for 10% of all targeted e-mails in April the longest of which lasted 45 hours. In March the same gang sent 151 e-mails accounting for more than 20% of targeted attacks. “This month we saw a significant surge in documents using the CVE-2006-2492 exploit” said Alex Shipp Senior Anti-virus Technologist MessageLabs. “n first sight it appears that more than one hacker ring is using this Microsoft Word exploit and so an exploit generator kit might exist although this has not yet been found.
Area schools wind up activities
Topeka Capital Journal – May 21, 2007
The following spring semester students in Melody Forbes’ Advanced Word classes passed the Microsoft Word 2003 Certification Exam at Shuler Education Center on May 3-4: Sloan Breight Brett Brett Kyle Bruggemeyer Ana Buchele Anthony Bunting Rachel Butler Edward Castello Brandon Clark Christopher Coffman Kelsey Drake Christopher Dunn Ashley Falcon Samantha Friesen Danny Fryberger Mitchell Graham Gretchen Gravenstein Bradley Hanvy Brittney Holtzman Giselle Hoyos Corey Jackson Matt Johnson Kelton Lemons Taylor Lynch Denise Mannen Adrianna Mosqueda-Lopez Meredith Muller Jordan chsner Natalie liver Faith Pearson Kelsey Schmiedeler Zachary Smith Kacia Turner and Jeremiah Ungerer. Max Vosburgh and Ryan Masilionis: Word Expert 2003. The following students in Teresa Golden’s Advanced Spreadsheets classes were recognized for passing the Microsoft ffice Specialist Exam for Advanced Excel and PowerPoint: (Microsoft ffice Specialists in Advanced Excel ffice 2003XP Core Level) Trent Annan Anastacia Culberston Kevin Helmer Brandy Hirsch Karim Hudda Lauren Magathan Ben Moser Allison Post Brian Wood and Scott Wortham; (Microsoft ffice Specialists in PowerPoint ffice 2003 XP) Denise Mead Jabiz Behzadpour and Sarah Black; and (Microsoft ffice Specialists in Excel ffice 2003 XP Expert Level) Max Vosburgh. The test was conducted at Shuler Education Center and students used a “live” Microsoft ffice application where students perform a series of tasks to demonstrate their ability. Jay Shideler Elementary School 4948 S… The following spring semester students in Melody Forbes’ Advanced Word classes passed the Microsoft Word 2003 Certification Exam at Shuler Education Center on May 3-4: Sloan Breight Brett Brett Kyle Bruggemeyer Ana Buchele Anthony Bunting Rachel Butler Edward Castello Brandon Clark Christopher Coffman Kelsey Drake Christopher Dunn Ashley Falcon Samantha Friesen Danny Fryberger Mitchell Graham Gretchen Gravenstein Bradley Hanvy Brittney Holtzman Giselle Hoyos Corey Jackson Matt Johnson Kelton Lemons Taylor Lynch Denise Mannen Adrianna Mosqueda-Lopez Meredith Muller Jordan chsner Natalie liver Faith Pearson Kelsey Schmiedeler Zachary Smith Kacia Turner and Jeremiah Ungerer. Max Vosburgh and Ryan Masilionis: Word Expert 2003. The following students in Teresa Golden’s Advanced Spreadsheets classes were recognized for passing the Microsoft ffice Specialist Exam for Advanced Excel and PowerPoint: (Microsoft ffice Specialists in Advanced Excel ffice 2003XP Core Level) Trent Annan Anastacia Culberston Kevin Helmer Brandy Hirsch Karim Hudda Lauren Magathan Ben Moser Allison Post Brian Wood and Scott Wortham; (Microsoft ffice Specialists in PowerPoint ffice 2003 XP) Denise Mead Jabiz Behzadpour and Sarah Black; and (Microsoft ffice Specialists in Excel ffice 2003 XP Expert Level) Max Vosburgh. The test was conducted at Shuler Education Center and students used a “live” Microsoft ffice application where students perform a series of tasks to demonstrate their ability. Jay Shideler Elementary School 4948 S.
Microsoft reportedly to support Chinese document standard
marketwatch.com – May 21, 2007
(MSFT) later Monday is expected to announce that it is sponsoring an open-source project to create a converter between Ecma pen XML – a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft ffice – and a Chinese national standard called Unified ffice Format CNET News. com reported on its Web Site Monday… com reported on its Web Site Monday. The company is also expected to make available beta versions of previously announced translators between PowerPoint and Excel and corresponding applications that support the penDocument Format CNET News. The converters to be available on the SourceForge. net site let people open and save documents in either the Ecma pen XML formats or DF. The beta software will work with the XP 2003 and 2007 versions of Powerpoint and Excel CNET reported.
SmartPhoneToday > News > View ffice 2007 Files with Documents…
PDAstreet – May 21, 2007
As with previous versions of the application users may view edit and sync most Microsoft ffice (e. Word Excel PowerPoint) documents on their smartphones. With this new edition however the viewing capability has been extended to Microsoft ffice Word and Excel 2007 files in their native.
MessageLabs Intelligence Targeted Attack Report: Criminal Ring…
marketwire.com – May 21, 2007
There was also a decline in attacks using. Ninety-five percent of targeted attacks in April 2007 used Microsoft fficesuite exploits. Microsoft Word has once again become the most common exploit vector withan increase in attacks using Word documents that contain SmartTag exploitCVE-2006-2492. These attacks increased dramatically since March 2007 fromfour attacks going to four single recipients to 66 attacks going to 273recipients in April. Although PowerPoint attacks decreased in April those attacks that weremade using exploit CVE-2006-0022 were made by Taiwanese criminal gang”Task Briefing” named for the subject line in the emails they use. Thering made six attacks this month sending 61 emails accounting for 10percent of all targeted emails in April the longest of which lasted 45hours… Microsoft Word has once again become the most common exploit vector withan increase in attacks using Word documents that contain SmartTag exploitCVE-2006-2492. These attacks increased dramatically since March 2007 fromfour attacks going to four single recipients to 66 attacks going to 273recipients in April. Although PowerPoint attacks decreased in April those attacks that weremade using exploit CVE-2006-0022 were made by Taiwanese criminal gang”Task Briefing” named for the subject line in the emails they use. Thering made six attacks this month sending 61 emails accounting for 10percent of all targeted emails in April the longest of which lasted 45hours. In March the same gang sent 151 emails accounting for more than 20percent of targeted attacks. “This month we saw a significant surge in documents using the CVE-2006-2492exploit” said Alex Shipp Senior Anti-virus Technologist MessageLabs. “nfirst sight it appears that more than one hacker ring is using thisMicrosoft Word exploit and so an exploit generator kit might existalthough this has not yet been found.