{"id":1539,"date":"2010-05-16T02:21:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T02:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2010-05-16T02:21:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T02:21:59","slug":"that-dreaded-pdf-non-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"That dreaded PDF non-vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, news have been circulating about a new form of phishing attack that doesn&#8217;t rely on some unpatched vulnerability; rather, it uses a legitimate feature of Adobe Acrobat to hijack users&#8217; computers.<\/p>\n<p>Sophos Labs offer a detailed description of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/sophoslabs\/?p=9413\">how it works<\/a>. (Basically, it&#8217;s the ability of Acrobat to open non-PDF attachments that is abused, tricking a user into running an executable program.) They also offer advice on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/sophoslabs\/?p=9301\">disable this feature<\/a>. I think it&#8217;s a darn good idea to follow their suggestion: most of us never deal with PDF documents containing non-PDF attachments anyhow.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1539' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, news have been circulating about a new form of phishing attack that doesn&#8217;t rely on some unpatched vulnerability; rather, it uses a legitimate feature of Adobe Acrobat to hijack users&#8217; computers. Sophos Labs offer a detailed description of how it works. (Basically, it&#8217;s the ability of Acrobat to open non-PDF attachments that is abused, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1539' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-internet","category-51-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}