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Microsoft to Boost Security of Office 2003, 2007
Posted on: 2010-12-14 14:47:04 By Elinor Mills @ CNET News Microsoft plugged 40 holes with 17 patches today and said it will improve the security of Office 2003 and Office 2007 by adding a feature to the older versions of its productivity software that opens files in Protected View. Customers should focus on the two critical bulletins that are part of Patch Tuesday, says Jerry Bryant, group manager for response communications in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. The first is MS10-090, a cumulative update for Internet Explorer. It fixes seven vulnerabilities in the browser and affects IE 6, 7 and 8. There have been attacks targeting IE 6 on Windows XP, Bryant said. The other critical bulletin is MS10-091, which fixes several vulnerabilities in the Windows Open Type Font driver. It affects all versions of Windows, primarily on third-party browsers that natively render the Open Type Font, which IE does not, according to Bryant. Read more... |