At the 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3) in Berlin, security researcher Julia Wolf of US company FireEye pointed out numerous, previously hardly known, security problems in connection with Adobe's PDF standard. For instance, a PDF can reportedly contain a database scanner that becomes active and scans a network when the document is printed on a network printer.. Wolf said that the document format is also full of other surprises. For example, it is reportedly possible to write PDFs which display different content in different operating systems, browsers or PDF readers The link for this article located at H Security is no longer available. . Reveal concealed weaknesses within PDF files that could jeopardize networks and lead to cybersecurity threats.. PDF Security, Malware Detection, Network Threats, Document Exploitation, File Format Risks. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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