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Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings natural language queries to the venerable spreadsheet tool. Available now to Office Insiders, this new feature allows you to talk to Excel like you’re talking to a person and get quick answers to your queries without having to write a query. “Natural language query is another […] Continue reading You can now ask Excel questions about your data
Microsoft Excel for iOS now lets you take pictures of a table, and turn that into real, editable data within a spreadsheet.
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Excel is great for pivot tables and financial modeling, but one of its greatest weakness is that it’s one-dimensional, not collaborative, static, and frustrating for generating on-demand reports. And who really likes seeing #DIVO all the tim… Continue reading Companies Are Breaking Up with Excel for Managing Cybersecurity – Here’s Why
Embassies around the world have been targeted in a recent spate of spearphishing email attacks from Russian hackers, according to a new report from researchers at Check Point Technologies. The emails, which the hackers filled with U.S. State Department logos and “Top Secret” labels to trick victims into believing they were legitimate, were actually laced with malicious Microsoft Excel files. The documents were capable of leveraging a trojanized version of remote access software, TeamViewer, to gain control of infected computers. After gaining access and control, the hackers’ code allowed them to take screenshots of the victims’ PCs, allowing the hackers to steal victims’ usernames and login credentials. They’ve had access to “everything,” Check Point’s Threat Intelligence Group Manager Lotem Finkelsteen tells CyberScoop. “Databases, personal data, documents, networks, other devices connected. They have full access to the infected device.” The hackers succeeded in gaining full control of many of the computers they targeted, […]
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Microsoft Excel now lets you take pictures of tables in real life and turn them into actual, editable tables on Excel.
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The spam campaign mostly targets victims in Turkey and Germany. Continue reading Adwind RAT Scurries By AV Software With New DDE Variant
A roundup of security news from May 7 – May 13, including a new zero-day for Internet Explorer, a Netflix phishing scam, a worm found in Facebook’s Messenger, and more.
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Shortly after Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel, someone demonstrated what could possibly go wrong if this feature is abused for malicious purposes.
As promised last year at Microsoft’s Ignite 2017 conference, the co… Continue reading Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript in Excel—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
It didn’t take long at all for a security researcher to demonstrate how easy it was to turn an Excel spreadsheet into a cryptomining machine.
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Microsoft has launched some new features in its Excel spreadsheet software that will boost its power. But will that only be for the benefit of users?
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