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Thorsten Hau
The misconceptions preventing wider adoption of digital signatures

In this Help Net Security interview, Thorsten Hau, CEO at fidentity, discusses the legal validity of qualified digital signatures, demonstrating their equivalence to …

HITRUST adds two offerings to aid in understanding control effectiveness and cyber preparedness

HITRUST announced a major expansion of its assessment portfolio to raise the quality and efficiency of assurances across the spectrum of information assurance needs. HITRUST …

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Zero day malware reached an all-time high of 74% in Q1 2021

74% of threats detected in Q1 2021 were zero day malware – or those for which a signature-based antivirus solution did not detect at the time of the malware release – capable …

Adobe
Adobe releases more security updates, equips Adobe Acrobat DC with a sandbox

A week after the June 2020 Patch Tuesday, Adobe has plugged more critical security holes in some of its well known graphic design and video and audio editing software. The …

PDFex attacks can exfiltrate content from encrypted PDF documents

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and Münster University of Applied Sciences have devised new attacks allowing them (and potential attackers) to recover the plaintext …

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PDF: The vehicle of choice for malware and fraud

There has been a substantial increase of fraudulent PDF files, according to a report by SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers. This fraud campaign takes advantage of …

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PDF viewers, online validation services vulnerable to digital signature spoofing attacks

Academics from Ruhr University Bochum have proven that the majority of popular PDF viewer apps and online digital signature validation services can be tricked into validating …

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Cisco Talos discloses serious vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Reader

Cisco Talos researcher Aleksandar Nikolic has unearthed one of the critical vulnerabilities fixed in the latest Adobe Acrobat and Reader security updates. He is also the one …

Adobe Reader
Adobe fixes 47 critical flaws in Acrobat and Reader

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader, and they fix a prodigious amount of critical (47) and important (39) vulnerabilities affecting both software …

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Phishers’ new social engineering trick: PDF attachments with malicious links

It is – or it should be – a well known fact that attackers occasionally email potential victims with PDF attachments containing malware or exploit code. But the …

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Risks of working with untraceable documents

An overwhelming majority of professionals are dealing with document-related productivity challenges associated with the inability to locate and track documents, control …

Google Chrome
Bug in Chrome’s PDF reader allows arbitrary code execution

Vulnerabilities in software often arise from faulty implementations of elements developed by other code writers. Take for example CVE-2016-1681, the heap-based buffer overflow …

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