Evil Annotation Attack News Today

The new research provides a weird little look at how online goons could mess with your documents, should they be so inclined.

Researchers demonstrate how attackers can exploit a couple of vulnerabilities to make changes to certified PDFs.

 E-Mail IMAGE: IT experts at RUB have found several security issues with digital signatures for PDF documents over the past years. view more  Credit: RUB, Kramer A security issue in the certification signatures of PDF documents has been discovered by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. This special form of signed PDF files can be used, for instance, to conclude contracts. Unlike a normal PDF signature, the certification signature permits certain changes to be made in the document...