Office For Mac S Most Secure Setting Increases Risk Of Attack
Ironically, this attack can happen in Office for Mac 2016 and 2019 only if you’ve opted for the most secure setting, “Disable all macros without notification”. If you instead stuck with the default setting, “Disable all macros with notification,” then these macros will be blocked. “The Microsoft Office for Mac option ‘Disable all macros without notification’ enables XLM macros without prompting, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system,” warned the government-funded CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) (opens in new tab)at Carnegie Mellon University in a blog posting last week....