![]() slk file format was a great “candidate for weaponization on Mac” for reasons that have been underestimated.įirst, Office’s ‘be careful’ protected mode sandbox warnings weren’t triggered when trying to open files in this format. Last year, Dutch researchers noticed that SYLK’s. It’s unlikely many people will have heard of either but as with so many formats from the distant past, support for them lingers on inside today’s software as something attackers might exploit in certain circumstances. The warning details the risky way Office for Mac 2011 handles a forgotten macro format called XML (no relation to XML markup) when embedded inside a Microsoft spreadsheet exchange format called SYLK (SYmbolic LinK). ![]() The second is that the US CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has issued a warning prompted by new research. The first is that Microsoft stopped supporting this version with bug and security fixes in October 2017, which means that any vulnerabilities in the software are essentially there forever. ![]() Any Apple users out there still running Microsoft Office for Mac 2011? If so, there are at least two reasons why that might not be a good idea.
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