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Friday, January 05, 2007

Chaos Computer Club explodes security bomb under Adobe

Adobe Reader has been pretty much single handedly responsible for ensuring PDF has become the de facto portable document publishing format on the web. It could also single handedly allow a universal cross scripting (XSS) exploit to compromise your website and your business. How serious is this particular vulnerability? Well, how serious does the fact that any site hosting a .pdf file could be at risk from attack.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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