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  • Report: Targeted e-mail attacks increasing

    Stealthy, targeted cyberattacks via e-mail continue to rise, e-mail security specialist MessageLabs said on Wednesday.

  • New website tracks zero-day flaws

    eEye Digital Security has launched a Web site that tracks publicly released security bugs that don't have an official patch, also known as zero-day flaws

  • New vulnerability exposes Excel and PowerPoint macros

    Malicious macros in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files are a well-known security threat, and security personnel routinely configure office PCs to trigger a warning to users when a macro is present in a document from an untrusted source. How do you stop the macros that creep through?

  • Word, PowerPoint blocked by Office 2003 update

    The latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 has made a range of older files inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, it emerged this week.

  • Microsoft Office flaws up 300 percent

    Between 2006 and 2007, there was an almost threefold rise in flaws found in Microsoft software, according to vulnerability-scanning company Qualys.

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    New Year's resolution: Don't forget the format

    Pretty much anyone who has been in storage management for more than five minutes knows that it's not enough to simply back everything up and hope for the best.

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    KM, meet Web 2.0

    Many Web 2.0 technologies and functions fall under the umbrella of KM: wikis for collaboration; tagging and "folksonomy", which is known to the fuddy-duddies as taxonomy; and blogging, which behind the firewall would otherwise be known as intranet publishing.

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  • Photo gallery: Microsoft Office 2007 beta 1

    This beta refresh reveals the suite's dynamic interface, as well as handy new tools, such as PDF creation.

  • Securing Microsoft 3: Security Threats 2.0

    In final instalment of 'Securing Microsoft', Ina Fried looks at the next generation of security threats. With Microsoft now outspending everyone with their massive security budget, will it be enough to stop ever more sophisticated security threats?

  • Microsoft releases three new security bulletins

    Microsoft has released a batch of updates that affect Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Exchange Server 2003, and Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC).

  • Secure collaboration requires document control

    An employee who receives confidential information can easily forward the decrypted document to anyone. Collaborative software can help close this security hole.

  • Microsoft's balancing act

    Buffeted by criticism of the way it handles privacy and security matters, Microsoft is trying to batten down the hatches on both fronts in simultaneous efforts.

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Reviews (69)

  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

    Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 makes prettier presentations, so an upgrade may be in order if your work is particularly image-focused and you don't mind relearning the application. If PowerPoint 2003 serves you well, however, it offers most of the same features, albeit with flatter-looking graphics.

  • Photo gallery: Microsoft Office 2007 beta 1

    This beta refresh reveals the suite's dynamic interface, as well as handy new tools, such as PDF creation.

  • Microsoft Office 11.0: Coming soon?

    While details on the newest version of Microsoft Office are still sketchy, we got a good first look at what to expect from Microsoft's most popular application package.

  • Microsoft Office XP: The User Takes Command

    Microsoft hits the mark with Office XP, a substantial improvement to Office 2000. Check out our early take on the software.

  • Microsoft Office XP

    It's certainly slicker looking, but is there more to the newest version of Office than just a pretty face? Here's our in-depth look at what's new and what's not.

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