Poisoned PDFs? Here's Your Antidote - PCWorld

Poisoned PDFs? Here's Your Antidote - PCWorld: ""

Erik Larkin, PC World

May 23, 2010 9:00 pm

Attacks employing poisoned PDF files have leaped to the top of the threat list, according to statistics from major security companies. Symantec reports that suspicious PDF files skyrocketed in 2009 to represent 49 percent of Web-based attacks that the company detected, up from only 11 percent in 2008. The next-most-common attack, involving a good old Internet Explorer flaw, was far behind at 18 percent. more...