FedScoop

Commerce’s Office of the Secretary used default passwords for endpoint detection

United States Department of Commerce Building (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images) Early last year, all it would have taken for a bad actor to breach the Department of Commerce Office of ...
Business Insider

Your Word, Outlook, and Excel apps might look different. Microsoft just changed its default font for the first time in 15 years.

Microsoft announced this week that it's changing its default Office font to Aptos. Aptos is supposed to "embody professionalism" and is easier to read at a small scale. The change is part of Microsoft ...
ZDNet

Bad news for hackers and malware writers: Microsoft brings back VBA macro block in Office

Microsoft has resumed its rollout of the protection in Office that, by default, blocks untrusted macros from the internet. The company abruptly rolled back the default block on internet macros earlier ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: Roll back of VBA macro block in Office is only temporary

After rolling back restrictions on internet macros in Office, Microsoft now says it is was a temporary change and that it will be bring back the ban on macros as the default for all users in future.
Windows Central

Microsoft Office won't disable VBA macros by default after all

Microsoft will not block VBA macros by default in downloaded Office documents. The company has tested a default block for VBA macros since April 2022, but decided against rolling it out to general ...