Microsoft will soon make it harder for end users to enable macros in Office files downloaded from the internet, which should have a huge effect on computer security.

As Microsoft resumes blocking macros by default in its Office application suite, reversing a temporary reversal, analysis from Proofpoint suggests the action has had a remarkable effect ...

LibreOffice features a check to determine if a macro was created and signed by someone the user trusts (i.e. a colleague) so it wouldn't execute the macro code in case of a mismatch.

Microsoft Office has supported macros for years, but up to now – while it has warned users about enabling them – users still had the option to enable them at the click of a button. This has ...