Microsoft PowerPoint under attack

Microsoft Corp said that hackers are seeking to attack users of its PowerPoint presentation software for Windows PCs and released patches to protect them against the threat.

Microsoft defined the threat as "critical" -- the most severe on the scale by which it ranks vulnerabilities to its software.

Hackers are seeking to exploit the vulnerability in PowerPoint by persuading the intended victim to open a tainted PowerPoint file -- that they either download from a Website or receive in an email, according to Symantec Corp, the world's top maker of security software.

"At that point, the attacker would then have complete control over everything the user's account has permission to do on the system." according to Alfred Huger, a senior researcher with Symantec.

Patna’s Super 30 script another ‘max’ story

It’s 30/30 again — for the second consecutive year. Super 30, an initiative under which poor students are coached free of cost in Patna to crack IIT-JEE, has scripted another success story with all its 30 students, coming out with flying colours.

Last year too all the 30 students of Super 30, being run by a local maths wizard Anand Kumar since 2002, cracked the JEE. Like previous years, most of the 30 successful candidates are wards of marginal farmers, school teachers, a police constable and a grade IV government employee.

The 30 students were selected from among 3,000-odd aspirants who had appeared at the Super 30 entrance test last year. “We would now be picking up 90 students every year for free coaching as well as food and lodging facilities.”

Last year, Patna saw two other coaching institutes, Rahmani Foundation and Triveni Super 30, offering free coaching and free food to deserving poor students. Abhayanand, an ADG-rank officer, offered his services at these two institutes.