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Mozilla releases Firefox 19 stable with built-in PDF viewer

Mozilla releases Firefox 19 stable with built-in PDF viewer
  • Posted February 20, 2013, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
  • Mozilla has published the latest stable release of Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The update is rather short on new features, but it does include a built-in PDF viewer that will eliminate the need for third-party plugins…

Exploit bypasses Adobe Reader's sandbox, being sold for $30-50k

Exploit bypasses Adobe Reader
  • Posted November 8, 2012, 6:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web With Video
  • Russian security firm Group-IB has found a zero-day flaw in Adobe Reader that bypasses the program's sandbox protection. Currently available on the black market for $30,000 to $50,000, the exploit allows attackers to sidestep the application's "Protected Mode," which was…

Mozilla's pdf.js version 0.2: sample PDF now renders in HTML5, JavaScript

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  • Posted July 5, 2011, 4:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
  • Mozilla's pdf.js project has reached its first milestone: a "pixel-perfect rendering" of a sample PDF (a paper on Mozilla's Tracemonkey JavaScript engine). Well, perfect in one specific browser and OS combination.

Mozilla wants Firefox to render PDFs with HTML5, JavaScript

Mozilla wants Firefox to render PDFs with HTML5, JavaScript
  • Posted June 17, 2011, 2:42 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Currently, browsers rely on plug-ins to display PDF files, like Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader. This may soon change, as there is a Firefox project in the works to build a PDF reader in HTML5 and JavaScript. A PDF reader…

PDF redaction fail: UK's nuclear submarine secrets unveiled

  • Posted April 18, 2011, 2:06 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in IT Security, Software
  • Organizations that decided to publish an internal document to the public need to first delete or black out any personal, confidential, or actionable information. The British Ministry of Defence, which published a PDF document online, tried to do so, but ended up unintentionally revealing information about nuclear submarine security.

Windows 8 to include its own PDF reader

Windows 8 to include its own PDF reader
  • Posted April 5, 2011, 10:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
  • Microsoft is planning on including its own Portable Document Format (PDF) reader in Windows 8 called Modern Reader. This is the first app discovered to be utilizing the new AppX application package type, as revealed by Rafael Rivera and Paul…

Adobe warns of critical vulnerability in Flash and PDF readers

  • Posted September 14, 2010, 3:21 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Software
  • Adobe issued a new security advisory yesterday, warning of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2010-2884) in several of its products, including Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris, as well as Flash 10.1.92.10 for Android. The bug…

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