However, it does diminish the PDF format's reputation as a safe way of distributing documents via email and should Adobe choose to alter Reader so that attachments can be opened through it, then users could well become vulnerable to attack.
Customers using Microsoft's eBook reader have until 9 December to access downloads purchased from the store, while Adobe Reader customers have 90 days to retrieve any outstanding files. In 2000, Adobe expanded its e-book efforts, purchasing e-book...
The Adobe Digital Media Store showcases the huge amount of compelling content now available in Adobe PDF format and provides publishers and producers of digital content with a vital, innovative new distribution channel, through Adobe Reader," he...
Fantuzzi said sending PDFs rather than Word documents is still not 100 per cent secure. However, Adobe is quick to defend the role the PDF format can play for business. Steve Gottwals, senior product manager at Adobe, told silicon.com the company...
PDFs are abundant on the net and finding one on a local system also isn't hard, a sample PDF file comes with Acrobat Reader and is installed in a predictable location on PCs, Grossman said. The security problem exists because the web browser plug...
People also can transfer PDFs stored on the web. People using the service now can upload and view documents encoded with the widely used and now standardised Portable Document Format (PDF) initially created by Adobe Systems.