Excel Files From Web Won't Open

I had an interesting issue creep up a bit ago with Excel files that were created by a web application not opening in Excel. I had a ColdFusion app that would generate reports on the fly for users.  We were using CFHEADER and CFCONTENT to deliver table formatted data as XLSX files.  It had been working fine right up until it didn't.  We hadn't made any changes to the code and checked and confirmed that there were no changes/patches ...

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Apple Mobile Devices - Patch 'em Up NOW

Apple has issued an "important security update", iOS 9.3.5, to neutralize a new piece of malware that can remotely jailbreak iPhones allowing an attacker full access to your device to read texts and email, record calls, track your location and activate your phone's camera and microphone. The update patches the three previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities that together are referred to as "Trident". To check if you're at risk look at Settings ...

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