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Just say “No!” – how to stop the DDE email attack [VIDEO]

You’ve probably heard of the DDE attack – a way of launching malware from a web download, an email attachment, or even directly from the body of an Outlook email message or calendar invite.

It sounds scary – no document macros, no tell-tale script files, no attachment to open…

…but once you know what to look for, stopping a DDE attack isn’t that hard.

Paul Ducklin tells you how the DDE attack works, what to look out for, and what to do.

(Can’t see the video directly above this line? Watch on Facebook instead.)

(You don’t need a Facebook account to watch the video, and if you do have an account you don’t need to be logged in. If you can’t hear the sound, try clicking on the speaker icon in the bottom right corner of the video player to unmute.)

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