eWeek: Opening a PDF file on your Windows PC can get you pwn3d, recently discovered by researcher Petko D. Petkov (his blog is no longer online at this point in time). It’s the same guy who discovered Apple’s Quicktime flaw and how you can infect someone’s PC via Firefox and Quicktime. Interestingly the open source party, i.e. Mozilla/Firefox, got the patched version, 2.0.0.7, out pretty quickly, and we are still waiting for Apple to respond to the threat. We’ll see how Adobe, another proprietary software company, respond to this 0-day vulnerability. Meanwhile, please send me everything in text/plain.
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Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott
Sep 21 2007