Someone sends us a Word document or Excel spreadsheet that they're expecting us to open and edit, but one of those pesky (and often inadvertent) passwords is getting in the way. There's certainly an upside to password flaws in Microsoft Office.
In many cases, your organization may be held liable by breach-notification laws if you cannot prove that sensitive information was adequately protected. Regardless, it's like the unencrypted laptop that gets lost or stolen - you'll never really know if the data is safe. OK, not everyone who comes across a password-protected Office 2013 file is going to have the means to crack it immediately. In other words, if an executive or someone in marketing or legal is touting how they're doing their part to protect sensitive information by adding passwords to their Office 2013 files, it's merely for show.
Advanced Office Password Recovery is shown in Figure 1. Passwords in business applications such as Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Word are all fair game. Using Elcomsoft's Advanced Office Password Recovery to crack a password-protected Office 2013 Word document.
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