its-a-trap-catMicrosoft confesses again. Though there is nothing to be ashamed of MS. You have done it before more than times one can count. This time it is about a security leak in a MS Excel. Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. In english, it means, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less affected than users who operate with administrative user rights. Scared? I am sure you are not if you have been using Microsoft for years. Its just too common. Full article (296 words) »