The other tells Excel to ignore DDE requests coming from elsewhere on the machine. All of this came as quite a surprise to me because Microsoft didn’t bother to document any of it in this month’s ...

Researchers have discovered a flaw in the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program that, combined with its Power Query data-fetching component, can leave businesses open to so-called "Dynamic Data Exchange ...

If you want to turn off Dynamic Data Exchange or DDE in Excel, here is everything you need to know about Dynamic Data Exchange and how to disable it. There are three ways to do that – using Excel ...

Microsoft published guidance for Windows admins on how to safely disable Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) fields in Office that are being used to spread malware in email-based attacks. Despite a rash of ...

Before you run these examples, you must first invoke Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, and open the spreadsheet or document used in the example. Note: DDE examples are included in the host-specific ...

The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program, in combination with its Power Query data-fetching component, can be leveraged in so-called "Dynamic Data Exchange" (DDE) types of attacks, according to a ...

Security researchers have devised a method to abuse a legitimate Microsoft Excel technology named Power Query to run malicious code on users' systems with minimal interaction. Power Query is a data ...

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These examples use Microsoft Excel as the DDE server, but any application that supports DDE as a server can communicate with the SAS System. Before you run most of these examples, you must first ...