Microsoft released two security advisories that included solutions yesterday as part of its massive April security update. Along with the 17 security bulletins in the April patch, Microsoft released a ...

One of the many new security features in Office 2010 is Office File Validation. This feature subjects files in the older Office formats (like .DOC and .XLS) to a format verification check before ...

Along with the 17 security bulletins in the April patch, Microsoft released a tool to help protect older versions of Office, as well as an update to the winload.exe program. The Office File Validation ...

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would backport an Office 2010 security feature to the older and more widely used Office 2003 and Office 2007 early next year. Dubbed Office File Validation (OVE), the ...

If you want to turn on or off File validation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, here is how you can do that. It is possible to enable or disable file validation in those Office apps with the help of the ...

Before actually loading them, the plug-in checks any files opened for proper file structure. It does this in a sandboxed environment with minimal privileges to limit the impact of any breach. This ...

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday beefed up security in Office 2003 and Office 2007 on Windows by adding a feature that first appeared in the newer Office 2010 last year. In Office 2010, the security feature ...

Microsoft says it will make updates available to users of Office 2007 and Office 2003 that will help make them as secure as Office 2010. And for Office 2010, that’s pretty secure as the software suite ...

Microsoft’s plan to “sandbox” Office documents in the next version of its application suite is an admission that the company can’t keep hackers from exploiting file format bugs, a security analyst ...