Date:29/04/17
The last Patch Tuesday of Microsoft, to 11 April 2017, was particularly important for Office users, because it closes a security hole is very dangerous Word discovery nine months ago. Microsoft was aware of this from six months.
The vulnerability was initially discovered by researcher Ryan Hanson, security consultant at extensive additional Inc, around July 2016, and will be notified to Microsoft in the month of October 2016 - time that Hanson has used to refine your search and find the implications more dangerous. The Word risk vulnerabilities allowed hackers to take advantage of the insertion of malicious software on the word links in the document, and to monitor and control the user's computer.
Six months is a very long time by the standards of the industry, in which speed of response is one of the main factors. In general, the security holes are closed in a matter of weeks, in the best cases, days. In this specific juncture, however, Microsoft, not being aware of any case of an attack that exploits the vulnerability, he decided to take the time to investigate well about the nature of the problem, releasing at the end of a patch able to resolve a number of vulnerabilities higher than that found in the source.
Microsoft has finally fixed the Word high-risk vulnerabilities
The last Patch Tuesday of Microsoft, to 11 April 2017, was particularly important for Office users, because it closes a security hole is very dangerous Word discovery nine months ago. Microsoft was aware of this from six months.The vulnerability was initially discovered by researcher Ryan Hanson, security consultant at extensive additional Inc, around July 2016, and will be notified to Microsoft in the month of October 2016 - time that Hanson has used to refine your search and find the implications more dangerous. The Word risk vulnerabilities allowed hackers to take advantage of the insertion of malicious software on the word links in the document, and to monitor and control the user's computer.
Six months is a very long time by the standards of the industry, in which speed of response is one of the main factors. In general, the security holes are closed in a matter of weeks, in the best cases, days. In this specific juncture, however, Microsoft, not being aware of any case of an attack that exploits the vulnerability, he decided to take the time to investigate well about the nature of the problem, releasing at the end of a patch able to resolve a number of vulnerabilities higher than that found in the source.
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