Day: December 14, 2006

Do you agree with his choices?

Peter Coffee’s 25 Killer Apps of All Time

1976: Electric Pencil
1978: WordStar
1979: VisiCalc
1981: dBase II
1982: AutoCAD
1983: Lotus 1-2-3
1983: Turbo Pascal
1984: MacWrite/MacPaint
1984: MultiMate
1985: Excel for Macintosh
1985: Aldus PageMaker
1986: Cross-network E-mail
1987: Excel for Windows
1987: dBase Mac
1988: Mathematica 1.0
1989: Word for Windows
1990: Windows 3.0
1990: Adobe Photoshop
1991: Microsoft Visual Basic
1994: Netscape Navigator 1.0
1995: Internet Explorer 1.0
1996: Palm HotSync
2001: Mac OS X
2001: Apple iTunes
2004: Mozilla Firefox 1.0

“Microsoft’s security response center has confirmed that a second zero-day vulnerability in its Word software program is being targeted by unknown attackers. The latest flaw comes just days after the software maker issued a security advisory to warn customers against opening Word documents from untrusted sources. The two vulnerabilities are entirely unrelated. The flaws were discovered during actual code execution attacks against select targets and highlight the Redmond, Wash., vendor’s struggle to cope with gaping holes in one of its most widely used products. According to a US-CERT advisory, the latest bug is a memory corruption issue that occurs when a Word file is rigged with malformed data structures. No other details were made available. Microsoft has not yet issued a formal prepatch advisory but, in a blog entry, Security Program Manager Scott Deacon listed affected software versions as Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003 and the Word Viewer 2003. He said Microsoft Word 2007 is not affected by the second vulnerability. ‘From the initial reports and investigation we can confirm that the vulnerability is being exploited on a very, very limited and targeted basis,’ Deacon added.”

Double Trouble: Microsoft Confirms Another Word Zero-Day Flaw

There you go… yet another reason to go to OpenOffice.org! ‘Nuff said.