Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 968272 Relating To A Vulnerability In Office Excel
This day just keeps getting better and better...
Earlier today, an ISC Reader (Thanks Sander) gave us a heads-up to the following URL pertaining to a Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel: (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33870/info).
Further searching Symantec's Security Response section of their website reveals this URL giving more information to the vulnerability that is being exploited: (http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2009-022310-4202-99).
Finally, Microsoft has now released Advisory 968272 pertaining to the above:(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/968272.mspx)
G.N. White
Handler On Duty (So what else could go wrong today?)
Gmail Access Issues Early This AM
Greetings and welcome to Tuesday, Feb 24th.
A number of our readers have written in to report issues accessing GMail. According to the "Status Update" section of their support site (https://mail.google.com/support), the operators have acknowledged that there was indeed a problem accessing Gmail today, and that the problem has been corrected. There is no mention made of what the problem specifically was.
Reader Marty submitted a URL from the BBC News Technology section (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7907583.stm) that suggests the issue started at 0930 GMT Today and lasted up to four hours.
We sincerely thank our readers for the submissions regarding situations like this!
G.N. White
Handler On Duty (Is it Friday yet?)
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