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Microsoft Access VBA, (Mon, May 25th)

Microsoft Access files (Microsoft Office’s Database) can contain VBA code. But they are not ole or OOXML files. You can’t analyze them with oledump.py: Neither do they contain an embedded OLE file: Microsoft does not publish official documentation for the Microsoft Access file format, like it does for CFB (ole) and OOXML. That inspired me…

Top Exchange Database Corruption – Causes, Prevention, and Recovery

In this post, I will talk about top Exchange database corruption and also its causes, prevention, and recovery. Corruption in Exchange database (EDB) can cause the database to dismount, preventing the users to access their mailboxes and disrupting the email communication. This can eventually affect the efficiency and productivity of the organization. Therefore, it is…

NIST admits defeat on NVD backlog, will enrich only highest-risk CVEs going forward

NIST is overhauling how it manages the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and switching to a risk-based model that prioritizes “enrichment” of only the most critical CVE-numbered security vulnerabilities. “This change is driven by a surge in CVE submissions, which increased 263% between 2020 and 2025,” the National Institute of Standards and Technology said. “We don’t…

Weekly Update 495

In the beginning, it was simple. A website, a database and 150M+ email addresses to search. Time has added serverless functions (which run on servers 🤷‍♂️), code on the edge, new data storage constructs and a completely different mechanism for even just querying a simple email address. HIBP is a continually evolving beast, and barely…