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Microsoft issued four "critical" patches, including one for the zero-day Excel vulnerability reported in January, in its March Patch Tuesday round of bug fixes. In all, the company corrected 12 vulnerabilities, all client-side problems associated with its Microsoft Office productivity suite. Last week's fix caused performance problems. Microsoft this week warned Windows and Mac users that cyberattackers are remotely exploiting a flaw in Excel to take over computers. Vulnerability could be exploited to compromise a user's system. On the heels of the PDF spam rise, junk mailers are using another popular file format - Microsoft Excel - to dupe users, a messaging security firm reported this week. Microsoft said on Thursday that next week it will release four patches, all of them critical, with one apparently fixing a zero-day Excel vulnerability. Microsoft on Thursday announced plans to push out 11 fixes in next week's security update. Malware responsible for 60 per cent of all attacks during the month. Microsoft re-released on Thursday one of the four fixes it had distributed as part of this month's Patch Tuesday. In its largest security update in 18 months, Microsoft on Tuesday delivered 11 patches to resolve 26 vulnerabilities in its operating system and related components. Microsoft plans 12 fixes - seven for "critical" bugs - in next week's monthly patch delivery. SOX, HIPAA, Basel II, CobIT – the alphabet soup of industry and government regulations regarding information security seems to get bigger each year.

Gary McKinnon, the Briton who is facing extradition to the US for hacking into NASA's computers, is to appeal the deportation on Monday. Microsoft on Tuesday released 11 patches fixing 17 vulnerabilities - six of them "critical" - but failed to patch an exploited flaw in Microsoft Excel revealed last month. Microsoft on Tuesday plans to deliver 12 fixes - its largest patch rollout in a year - to address a number of vulnerabilities impacting its operating systems and related software. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. As we put the festivities behind us and fix our sights firmly on the year ahead, those criminal gangs involved in the nefarious activities of spam creation, phishing and virus attacks continue to engage new tactics that will take advantage of our relaxed, less cautious frame of mind. Security experts today reported two vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products - one of which likely will not be patched until next month's security update. Almost every day there is news of a company's security breach and, increasingly, many of these incidents are originating from an employee or other internal source. Spam accounted for 95 per cent of all email traffic in 2007 as spammers grew increasingly brazen and diverse in their attack strategies, according to anti-spam firm SpamStopsHere.