• Block malicious OneNote attachments without blocking your work

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    Mary Branscombe

    By Mary Branscombe

    Making PCs more secure is a continuous cycle of improving security in one area, such as Windows itself, so attackers move on to another avenue of attack.

    They go after PDFs, browsers, and — perennially — Office documents, usually through macros.

    In each case, Microsoft typically creates a fix for the specific attacks first, then a defense against that category of attacks, and then deeper protections that might make more significant changes to the underlying feature used as an attack vector.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.29.0, 2023-07-17).