Microsoft Monthly Security Updates Focus on Office
Microsoft today released critical security patches for its Office software, fixing a flaw in Excel that had been exploited by attackers for the past two months.
The bug fixes were released infour software updatesfor Excel, Outlook, Office 2000, and Office's Web components. Microsoft rates all of the updates as critical, meaning that an attacker could theoretically exploit these flaws in order to hack into a victim's computer.
In total, 12 vulnerabilities are fixed in the four updates.
