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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0141 Hackers Favor PowerPoint as Attack Vector for Corporate Systems:

A growing number of malware authors have made Microsoft's PowerPoint their vector of choice for infecting corporate systems. Research from MessageLabs suggests that increased patching of Microsoft WORD, coinciding with comparatively less attention to patching other applications, has led to hackers targeting PowerPoint. "People expect to find PowerPoint in their emails, moreso than applications like spreadsheets," said Alex Shipp, senior antivirus technologist at MessageLabs. "Also it was a relatively untapped area and there were lots of exploits out there as Microsoft wasn't fixing them very quickly. Microsoft is now patching all these exploits that are brought out at a similar rate to Word." The research found that PowerPoint now hosts 45% of attacks, compared to 35% in Word documents.

(vnunet.com 18APR07)

Last Modified: Sunday, 29-Apr-2007 14:37:19 EDT