Microsoft Word provides an option to protect “forms” by password. This is used to ensure that unauthorized users cannot manipulate the contents of documents except within specially designed “form” areas. This feature is also often used to protect documents which do not even have form areas (quotations/offers etc.).
This form protection can easily be removed without [...]
25 Feb, 2004
By Patrick Gray, SecurityFocus
The first new security vulnerability to emerge from last week’s Microsoft source code leak crossed a security mailing list over the weekend, reigniting debate over the seriousness of the leak.
The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 5 and various versions of Outlook Express. It was unearthed in code the two programs use to process [...]
The source code is available here:
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Confirmed late last week that segments of the confidential source code underlying the popular Windows operating system have been leaked onto the Internet. The leak was relatively small, little more than one percent of the hundreds of millions of lines of instructions that make up the complex software. But Windows is the world’s most widely-used [...]
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