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By Derek Manky, security researcher, FortiGuard Global Security Team, Fortinet | Sep 28, 2010

Attacking systems for sensitive information for the purpose of espionage or monetization is certainly not new. The new trend that we continue to observe involves the vehicles that are used for these attacks.

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Wow, this is a

Submitted by Riley Jenkins on 7 October 2010 - 11:14pm.

Wow, this is a comprehensively detailed piece on how these document attacks occur. It is a little comforting to know, however, that there are things we can do to protect ourselves and that not all attacks will work on every version of software.

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