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Social engineering will ALWAYS be the most effective means of compromising a system.

Social engineering will ALWAYS be the most effective means of compromising a system. If you can get the user to run a thing, you have got them to run anything you want forever. This is not a problem with VBA, VBA is merely providing functionality (and useful functionality in many respects). There is no way to prevent this in VBA or any other technology. The only vector of mitigation is educating the user.

Posted by TodPunk on Jul 1, 2015, 4:33 PM

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Social engineering will ALWAYS be the most effective means of compromising a system.

TodPunkJul 1, 2015, 4:33 PM

Social engineering will ALWAYS be the most effective means of compromising a system. If you can get the user to run a thing, you have got them to run anything you want forever. This is not a problem with VBA, VBA is merely providing functionality (and useful functionality in many respects). There is no way to prevent this in VBA or any other technology. The only vector of mitigation is educating the user.

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