Excelerating Analysis, Part 2 — X[LOOKUP] Gon’ Pivot To Ya

In December 2019, we published a blog post on augmenting analysis using Microsoft Excel for various data sets for incident response investigations. As we described, investigations often include custom or proprietary log formats and miscellaneous, non-traditional forensic artifacts. There are, of...

Description of the security update for Office 2016: September 10, 2019

Description of the security update for Office 2016: September 10, 2019 Summary This security update resolves a remote code execution vulnerability that exists if the Windows Jet Database Engine incorrectly handles objects in memory. To learn more about the vulnerability, see Microsoft Common...

MS17-014: Description of the security update for Excel 2016: March 14, 2017

MS17-014: Description of the security update for Excel 2016: March 14, 2017 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft...