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Security

Microsoft warns of PowerPoint

by admin on April 4, 2009

The pirate attacks have no patch for a vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint, the company warned on Thursday.

The vulnerability, based on Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, can vary from one person to do a PowerPoint file would be for the attack. If the file is open, access to a PowerPoint object is not valid in the memory. This allows an attacker to execute remote code on the system.

In a statement, security, Microsoft said today that the attacks are not widespread, but because of the victim.

“Microsoft is the search for new information received from a vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint can execute code from remote locations when a user opens a file PowerPoint specifically,” said the consultancy. “At this point, we are aware that limited and targeted attacks which try to exploit this vulnerability.”

Well, that there is currently no patch for the vulnerability in PowerPoint, Microsoft said in May he find a way out of their monthly schedule updates. Solutions from the company are not needed for opening files from untrusted sources using the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) to open files are not sure, and with Microsoft Office folder to block the policy of opening ‘and Office 2003 earlier documents.

Comcast passwords leaked onto the Web

by admin on March 21, 2009

A list of 700 usernames and passwords of customers of Comcast has been removed from the document-sharing site Scribd, on Monday, two months later, she was there.

Scribd from the list, which was the cause of thousands of passwords and usernames after by Brad Stone at the New York Times. Stone said he was from a customer, Comcast was in the list after a search on his own email address in the search engines Pipli.

Comcast Jennifer Khoury, said spokesman for the New York Times that the list is probably a compilation of phishing or other types of attacks and not within Comcast.

MSI Wind U115 Runs for 13 Hours Under 100% CPU Usage

by admin on March 21, 2009

It is officially people! At least as a formal framework for the test battery by a fan of your blog can be. The MSI Wind U115 battery for more than 13 hours, with the CPU usage to 100% for the whole period.

Then again, WiFi has been taken for testing, and perhaps the screen darkens automatically to save energy (it is difficult to understand the source, as in French, but I believe that the drafters of the screen at full power). In any case, it is the longest I’ve heard, each netBook or laptop for that substance permanently on a single charge occur.