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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Study: ‘Huge jump’ in Microsoft flaws since last year
The past year has seen a massive increase in the number of flaws found in Microsoft software, according to vulnerability-scanning company Qualys. “These charts show growth of nearly 300 percent from 2006 to 2007, primarily in new Excel vulnerabilities that can easily be exploited by getting unsuspecting users to open Excel files sent via e-mail and instant message.”
Alan Paller, director of research for the Sans Institute, a computer-security training organization, said that the reason more vulnerabilities were being found was that it was becoming increasingly profitable for crooks to target the software.