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A hidden line in a Word doc can rewrite your numbers, and infect the next file too

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A hidden line of text in a Word document can quietly halve the numbers in your financial report. Then it can smuggle a copy of itself into the clean file you send on. And 144 days after a researcher warned Microsoft, it still works. Håkon Måløy, a Norwegian data scientist, disclosed the technique on 28 […] This story continues at The Next Web

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