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Excel security is a myth: Passwords and hidden rows won't save your data, but this will

From hidden rows to sheet protection passwords, Excel's "privacy" features are easily bypassed—encryption and deletion are much more watertight.
Dark Reading

Russian Hackers Weaponize Microsoft Office Bug in Just 3 Days

APT28's attacks use specially crafted Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) documents to kick off a multistage infection chain to deliver malicious payloads.
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Why Microsoft Access is dying (and what is replacing it)

Access filled the gap between spreadsheets and real databases. Cloud collaboration, security, and services like Power Apps ...

From injury to diet to age verification: How AI is reshaping Indian athletes' training

From dietary recommendations to injury predictions and from age verification to psychological mapping -- artificial ...
Wall Street Journal

Fed Lost Access to Private Jobs Data Ahead of Government Shutdown

Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive U.S. economic statistics because of the continuing government shutdown, recently lost access to a separate measure of employment data from a ...
The Hill

Appeals Court rules DOGE can access sensitive federal data

An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can access sensitive federal data of millions of Americans, reversing a temporary injunction that was issued ...
The New York Times

Appeals Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data at Several Agencies

The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration. By Zach Montague Reporting from Washington A federal ...
TechCrunch

For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data

AI is being forced on us in pretty much every facet of life, from phones and apps to search engines and even drive-throughs, for some reason. The fact that we’re now getting web browsers with baked-in ...
Wired

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and ...
CNBC

Supreme Court just gave DOGE access to Social Security data. Here's what personal information is at stake

The Trump administration has tasked DOGE with helping to root out waste, fraud and abuse at federal agencies. At the Social Security Administration, that has also included efforts to provide ...
CNN

Supreme Court restores DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Security data and says it doesn’t have to turn over documents

The Supreme Court handed the Department of Government Efficiency a pair of significant wins on Friday, allowing the entity to access sensitive Social Security data for millions of Americans while ...
USA Today

In win for Trump, Supreme Court lets DOGE access Social Security data

WASHINGTON – A divided Supreme Court on June 6 said Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency can have complete access to the data of millions of Americans kept by the U.S. Social Security ...