I just became aware of a serious security risk involving the combined use of
WinWord and Excel in Office 2000.
While writing a report in WinWord, I incorporated a graph generated via
Excel via "cut and paste". Later on, using a different computer, I decided
to edit the title of the graph by double clicking on it. To my dismay, the
*entire* content of the Excel file which was not residing in the computer
where I was doing the editing, became available to me.
Say you have the unclassified "Graph 1" in sheet 1 of an Excel file and the
classified "Graph 2" in sheet 2 of the same file. When you incorporate Graph
1 in the unclassified portion of your report you are inadvertently making
Graph 2 available to the user.
To avoid this problem use "paste special", you will not be able to edit your
graphs by double clicking on it, but you will avoid potentially embarrassing
situations. [enrique.g.sauer@lmco.com (esauer) via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 53]
0:00
#
G!
