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• Block malicious OneNote attachments without blocking your work

  Posted on July 17, 2023 at 02:44 CDT by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  ONENOTE

  

  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).

  OneNote Blocking, Malicious Files, Newsletters, OneNote, Security

• Ratool — Because firewalls can’t stop everything

  Posted on March 14, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 19.11 • 2022-03-14

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  Everyone is walking around with the storage of a 1990s supercomputer in their pockets. Jingling around with the pennies and nickels, flash drives are an old-school data thief’s best friend.

  Remember those first computer-hacker movies where the thief, spy, or 14-year-old had only a few minutes to copy a file from a computer before being caught red-handed? Oh, the suspense of watching that file-copy window slowly progress as the floppy drive ground away.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.11.0 (2022-03-14).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Newsletter 19.11.F (2022-03-14).

  Freeware Spotlight Blocking, Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, External Drives, Newsletters, USB drives, Utilities