Thursday, March 29, 2007

Dangerous document formats

If you’ve been reading our diaries for last couple of months, no doubt that you are aware of the huge number of exploits directed toward various Office applications, mainly Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. For quite some time a lot of administrators (us included) told people to convert documents to other (safer) formats, one of them being RTF (Rich Text Format).

While RTF is a more human readable format (it is a plain, ASCII file at the end), this does not prevent it from embedding objects that can be very dangerous, as we will see.

Read the article HERE.

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