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Title: PDFs Are More Dangerous than Previously Thought
Post by: HCK on January 04, 2011, 03:00:27 pm
PDFs Are More Dangerous than Previously Thought
      


In a recent presentation to the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, security researcher Julia Wolf highlighted a number of “features” of the PDF format that could lead to serious security issues. Wolf showed that a PDF could contain a database scanner that could “scan a network when the document is printed on a network printer,” [...]
      

http://blog.intego.com/2011/01/04/pdfs-are-more-dangerous-than-previously-thought/