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Hah! New MS Excel exploit up for auction on eBay
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Dec 12, 2005, 12:55 PM
 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15780/discuss

The auction has since been removed, but someone found an exploit in Microsoft Excel and was trying to auction instructions on how to exploit it on eBay. Screw Security Focus, we have eBay!

At first, people thought it was a hoax, but Microsoft confirmed the exploit and eBay pulled the auction.



Edit: Some more links:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11363 <-- Original Article
http://www.osvdb.org/blog/?p=71 <-- Original auction text.
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Dec 12, 2005, 01:59 PM
 
That is one huge bug !!



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Special offers:

Microsoft representatives get 10% off the final price. To qualify, you MUST provide @microsoft.com e-mail address and MUST mention discount code LINUXRULZ during checkout.


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