Collaborate Disseminate
An Office anti-malware setting that took more than 20 years to arrive… and fewer than 20 weeks to vanish again. Continue reading That didn’t last! Microsoft turns off the Office security it just turned on
Things haven’t gone as smoothly as Microsoft (and, indeed, the rest of us) might have hoped… Continue reading Microsoft rolls back plan to block macros by default
The Game Boy Camera was the first digital camera that many of us ever interacted with. At the time it was fairly groundbreaking to take pictures without film, even though …read more Continue reading Astrophotography on the Game Boy Camera
From the smallest 60% keyboards for those with no desk space to keyboards with number pads for those doing data entry all day, there’s a keyboard size and shape for …read more Continue reading Custom Macro Keyboard With RGB Lighting
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “XLSB Files: Because Binary is Stealthier Than XML“: In one of his last diaries, Brad mentioned an Excel sheet named with a .xlsb extension. Now, it was my turn to find one… What’s the magic behind this file extension? “XLS” means that we
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UK-based Adaptalux hit Kickstarter in 2015 with a modular lighting system aimed at macro photographers that featured bendy LED arms for creative lighting opportunities. Fueled by success, the development team returned four years later with Xenon flash … Continue reading Adaptalux lights up macro photography with improved Xenon flash modules
Long story short, got duped into opening an XLSM in Excel, with macros being enabled. Realised instantly.
Digged into the Excel structure, found the following (extremely obfuscated) payload:
=CALL("urlmon","URLDownloadToFilA… Continue reading Opened compromised Excel file – am I safe?
How does Microsoft hope to defeat the macro terror? How is the UK Government trying to influence the public’s opinion on end-to-end encryption? And what is MoviePass hoping to do with your eyeballs?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #262: Macro progress, eyeball-tracking ads, and encryption backdoors
How does Microsoft hope to defeat the macro terror? How is the UK Government trying to influence the public’s opinion on end-to-end encryption? And what is MoviePass hoping to do with your eyeballs?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #262: Macro progress, eyeball-tracking ads, and encryption backdoors
Bravo to Microsoft, because it sounds like they’re doing something to improve the security of Office users. Way back in 1995, Microsoft accidentally shipped a virus on CD ROM. At first Microsoft refused to call it a virus, preferring to call it a… Continue reading 25 years on, Microsoft makes another stab at stopping macro malware