Elastic’s Vice President of Global Customer Support, Julie Baxter-Rudd, got her start in technical support over two decades ago.“I was super lucky to find support early on,” she says with a smile. “It is a people business, from the customers we serve to the teams that help deliver the service. I love people, in all their glorious forms.”It's the people that led Julie to … [Read more...] about 4 tips to excel in technical support from Elastic’s Julie Baxter-Rudd
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APT Hackers Turn to Malicious Excel Add-ins as Initial Intrusion Vector
Dec 28, 2022Ravie LakshmananMalware / Windows Security Microsoft's decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default for Office files downloaded from the internet has led many threat actors to improvise their attack chains in recent months. Now according to Cisco Talos, advanced persistent threat (APT) actors and commodity malware families alike are … [Read more...] about APT Hackers Turn to Malicious Excel Add-ins as Initial Intrusion Vector
Cybercriminals Widely Abusing Excel 4.0 Macro to Distribute Malware
Threat actors are increasingly adopting Excel 4.0 documents as an initial stage vector to distribute malware such as ZLoader and Quakbot, according to new research. The findings come from an analysis of 160,000 Excel 4.0 documents between November 2020 and March 2021, out of which more than 90% were classified as malicious or suspicious. "The biggest risk for the targeted … [Read more...] about Cybercriminals Widely Abusing Excel 4.0 Macro to Distribute Malware
Microsoft Excel Released for iPad
Microsoft Excel has been released for the iPad. You can download it now from the Apple App Store along with the other Office for iPad applications. Now your Excel spreadsheets look great on the iPad. When you edit or create spreadsheets, you can be confident they will look exactly how you want across PC, Mac, tablet and phone. Excel for iPad has the familiar Office look and … [Read more...] about Microsoft Excel Released for iPad