Recently, it was reported that some of the Microsoft Word versions suffer from a type of security vulnerability that makes these systems easy targets for hacking attacks. Not many details have been released so far about this security flaw in MS Word – for obvious reasons. But, it has something to do with the processing of the Rich Text Format (RTF) files in MS Word. How these hacking attacks happen? Hackers are taking advantage of this security flaw and designing special RTF files that would be emailed to your email account. When you open this RTF file attachment in your Outlook application, your system is infected. This is because Microsoft Outlook is a part of the MS Office suite and therefore, it would use the MS Word application in the system to process Word and RTF files. Now, according to the statement issued by Microsoft, the following MS Word versions suffer from this security flaw – MS Word 2013, 2007 and 2003, some of the Microsoft SharePoint Server versions and the Microsof...