Last week, Symantec reported a security flaw in PowerPoint that would allow malware to be deposited on a user's computer by merely opening a PowerPoint file. If Microsoft confirms the security hole, it will mean that there are two high security risks in the Office product suite after just releasing a major patch to fix five others.
Users beware. Only open MS Office attachments for which you are expecting. Otherwise o not open documents in email attachments. As always, enterprises must use layers of stronger authentication to mitigate the risk of successful malware attacks internally from applications that contain malware.
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