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microsoft.com - 10/16/2008
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-057 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (956416)
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This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. ...
support.microsoft.com - 10/15/2008
Description of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update
— support.microsoft.com — The Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update contains several changes that improve security, stability, reliability, and performance. Additionally, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a ... (more) Description of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 ...

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techradar.com - 10/22/2008
Microsoft: iPhone and Android are no threat | News | TechRadar UK
— techradar.com — Windows Mobile has nothing to fear from either the iPhone or Google Android, says Microsoft's John Curran. TechRadar asked the Windows business lead for Microsoft UK how he saw Windows Mobile, Android and the iPhone divvying up market share in three ... (more) Microsoft: iPhone and Android are no threat | News | ...

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webmonkey.com - 10/14/2008
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— webmonkey.com — According to Microsoft’s latest Silverlight announcement , Apple shows little to no interest in installing either Silverlight or Adobe Flash on its iPhones. Thanks to the open source nature of Google’s mobile operating system Android, on the other ... (more) Microsoft

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TheAppleBlog:  Microsoft Posts Patches on the Heels of Apple’s Security & Firmware Updates

Infinite Loop:  Office 2008's 12.1.3 update improves security, stability

TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us:  Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.3 and 2004 11.5.2 Updates

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Microsoft Posts Patches on the Heels of Apple’s Security & Firmware Updates
TheAppleBlog — ... , which bumps the version to 1.0.1 and fixes a remote code execution (rated by Microsoft as “important”) associated with security bulleting MS08-057. The Open XML Converter allows you to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows so that you can open, edit, and save them in earlier versions of Office for Mac. The ...

Office 2008's 12.1.3 update improves security, stability
Infinite Loop — ... ). The update affects security, stability and performance. Most importantly, the update patches critical vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to perform remote code execution via Excel. When exploited, this opening "could take complete control of an affected system," according to Microsoft's security page (pointed out to us by ...

Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.3 and 2004 11.5.2 Updates
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... The security risk pertains to important vulnerabilities in Excel that could enable an attacker to take control of a user's machine. If a user were to open a specially crafted file, the attacker could take advantage of remote code execution to take complete control of the user's system. Full notes concerning this risk are available via Microsoft's Security Bulletin. ...

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