NEWS: Microsoft Word vulnerability gives hackers a backdoor (ADTmag.com )

[Grant Hogarth]

Yet another reason to switch to FrameMaker...
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Microsoft Word vulnerability gives hackers a backdoor 
<http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=26942> 
By John K. Waters

A newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Word XP and Word 2003
allows malicious hackers to mount Trojan-based attacks through e-mail
attachments, establishing a backdoor that allows them to control
compromised Windows PCs. According to security experts, files containing
the Mdropper-H and Backdoor-Ginwui Trojans have begun to circulate on
the Internet.
More: <http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=26942> 

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