Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and OpenOffice compared

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 22, 2011

“Independently of each other, security specialists Dan Kaminsky
and Will Dormann from Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT have found
that, in the past few years, the number of flaws and exploitable
vulnerabilities in individual versions of Microsoft Office has
fallen dramatically, achieving results that are even below those of
OpenOffice.

“However, their findings should be treated with caution, as they
are based on automatic evaluations and say little about the actual
threat potential.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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