How to protect yourself from PowerPoint hackers
"Microsoft says hackers seek to attack PowerPoint users ," screams the headline from Reuters. Good news: Microsoft has already published a security update you can download and install. It plugs 14 holes in PowerPoint that could possibly allow remote control of a compromised PC. As far as anyone knows, only one of those 14 holes has been attacked, but the other 13 were potential problems.
The problem affects many versions of PowerPoint. Microsoft’s bulletin lists them:
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Google buys Zenter, powerpoint for the browser
Google has just acquired Zenter, software that aimed to be a web-based Powerpoint-killer.
Zenter built the application in just a few months, and the company was one of the more dynamic Y Combinator-backed companies from this past winter: The founders also patented the software they built. It’s little surprise that the company has just been snapped up by Sam Schillace’s application division at Google.
The site itself offers features as a large library of web-based fonts as… Continue Reading