Microsoft Fixes WordPad’s Double Life: The Comedy of Password Theft and Skype’s Little Secret

WordPad played a sneaky double agent, letting hackers nab NTLM hashes. It’s like the plot of a digital heist movie, but Microsoft is the hero, swooping in to fix the flaw in the script. So, the Microsoft WordPad Vulnerability Fix is the twist no one saw coming. Now, who’s ready for the sequel?

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Well, well, well. It seems like our old friend WordPad was playing double agent, enabling hackers to sneak in and snatch NTLM hashes. It's like a digital version of a heist movie, with WordPad as the inside man. But don't fret, Microsoft's on it, and they've fixed the flaw. Also, did anyone else have to Google NTLM hashes? No? Just me then.

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