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    September 2025 Patchday: Office RCE Risks & 80 CVEs, Strategic Patch Playbook

    Microsoft’s September 9, 2025 Patchday brought a dense, operationally important set of fixes for Microsoft Office alongside a much larger ecosystem update—roughly eighty CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure and related components—forcing administrators to treat this month’s release as more than...
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    CVE-2025-54903: Excel Use-After-Free Local RCE — Patch Now

    Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54903, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a victim opens a specially crafted spreadsheet — a document‑based remote code execution (RCE) risk that should be treated as high priority for both...
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    CVE-2025-54898: Excel Out-of-Bounds Read Risk and Mitigations

    Microsoft’s security tracker lists CVE-2025-54898 as an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that can be triggered by a crafted spreadsheet and may allow an attacker to achieve local code execution when a user opens a malicious file. Background Microsoft Excel remains one of the...
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    OnlyOffice for Android: A Free, Privacy-Focused Office Suite Redefining Mobile Productivity

    A new generation of Android productivity apps is redefining how users work on documents and spreadsheets, and OnlyOffice is at the forefront of this movement. Offering a comprehensive suite of free tools without demanding subscriptions or intrusive logins, OnlyOffice has rapidly become an...
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    Critical Microsoft 365 PDF Export Vulnerability Fixed: Protect Sensitive Data

    A critical security vulnerability in Microsoft 365's PDF export functionality has been discovered and subsequently patched, highlighting significant risks to sensitive enterprise data. The vulnerability, which earned its discoverer a $3,000 bounty from Microsoft's Security Response Center...
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    CVE-2025-49699: Critical Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability and How to Protect Against It

    A newly disclosed vulnerability, CVE-2025-49699, has emerged as a significant concern for both enterprise administrators and everyday users in the Microsoft ecosystem. This vulnerability, classified as a “Remote Code Execution” (RCE) flaw in Microsoft Office, draws particular attention due to...
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    M-Files and Microsoft Partnership: Revolutionizing Enterprise Content Management with AI and Collaboration

    M-Files, a leader in AI-powered document management, has announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft, aiming to revolutionize enterprise content management. This partnership integrates M-Files' metadata-driven automation and AI capabilities with Microsoft's robust collaboration tools...
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    EchoLeak: The Critical AI Security Flaw Reshaping Enterprise Data Protection

    Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI assistant that has garnered headlines for revolutionizing enterprise productivity, recently faced its most sobering security reckoning yet with the disclosure of “EchoLeak”—a vulnerability so novel, insidious, and systemic that it redefines what...
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    Microsoft Edge’s AI-Powered Updates: Full PDF Translation, Summarization & Automation Agents

    Microsoft Edge, long recognized for its deep integration within the Windows ecosystem, is on the cusp of a significant transformation that could drastically refine how individuals and enterprises interact with digital documents and automate workflows. At Build 2025, Microsoft unveiled...
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    Microsoft 365 Hero Links: Revolutionizing Secure File Sharing in 2025

    Microsoft 365 users are about to experience a dramatic shift in the way file sharing is managed across their organizations, thanks to the introduction of a new feature known as Hero Links. This update, rolling out in late 2025, marks a substantial enhancement to both the flexibility and security...
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    Microsoft Disables ActiveX by Default in Office 2024: Enhancing Security and Phasing Out Legacy Tech

    Microsoft Disables ActiveX by Default in Microsoft 365 and Office 2024: The End of a Risky Era Microsoft is pulling a decisive security lever by disabling ActiveX controls by default in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications. This change, rolling out imminently, aims to...
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    Microsoft 365 Disables ActiveX by Default: A Major Security Move

    Microsoft is making a bold move that aims to significantly reduce one of Office’s longstanding vulnerabilities. In a bid to enhance security and protect users, Microsoft 365 for Windows is set to disable ActiveX content by default in its flagship applications—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio...
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    Transforming Mortgages: Discover ZLM Connect's Innovative App for Seamless Financing

    Zita Latham Mortgages is stepping boldly into the digital future with the launch of its latest mobile app, ZLM Connect, on the BrokerIQ platform. This innovative tool is set to streamline the traditional mortgage process by merging advanced communication features, secure document management, and...
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    4053440 - Securely opening Microsoft Office documents that contain Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) fields - Version: 3.0

    Revision Note: V3.0 (January 9, 2018): Microsoft has released an update for all supported editions of Microsoft Excel that allows users to set the functionality of the DDE protocol based on their environment. For more information and to download the update, see ADV170021. Summary: Microsoft is...
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    Windows 10 A way to lock folders?

    I manage an online historic archive for a local historical society. We have many documents, pictures, etc., posted in a Dropbox account, and provide links for all who desire. I'm concerned that one of us (me or one of the volunteers who has access to the account/collection) might someday...
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    MS15-097 - Critical: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Graphics Component Could Allow Remote...

    Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.1 (September 8, 2015): Revised bulletin to correct the security impact and the vulnerability information for CVE-2015-2506 (from denial of service to elevation of privilege). This is an informational change only. Summary: This security update resolves...
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    Windows 7 How do I keep sensitive documents from leaking?

    I have very sensitive company documents that I have to work with on a daily basis. It is critical that these documents not be accessible by others (mainly competitors). The documents are created, maintained, and stored on a secure, never online Linux machine. However, a couple of times a week...
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    Windows 7 Need to secure PDF docs

    OK, so sometime I want to print a PDF doc where nobody can makes changes to it, insert stuff in to it, or extract the info from it. In other words, all I want therm to be able to do is print it and that's it... On my secondary XP machine, I was using a program by Software602 that allowed...
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    Microsoft Office "Anti-Bulletin"

    In November 2010, Microsoft released the first Security Bulletin (Link Removed due to 404 Error) against an Office 2010 component, in this case Microsoft Word. Approximately 6 months had elapsed since Office 2010 launched in May and while it's good for such a widely used product to be available...
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    Windows 7 How to remove user accounts

    I do not know how I got a second admin account with my name probably i was doing something in a windows program and their i gave admin rights to my first account, now i cannot delete this new account i searched how to geek and according to that the delete account is not where it should be it...
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