[ga] PDF Exploits On the Rise

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Perhaps the following should be given some serious consideration
by ICANN's staff and the SSAC, see:

Our research some two years ago came to these conclusions
which were briefly wrtiien up in Computerworld at the time.
I am a bit surprised that yet again these exposiers need to
be revisted.  Additionally .DOC format is similarly an easy
hack as well, and we for some time no longer use either
format, no will download either and recomend same.

Further see:
According to the TrustedSource Blog, malware authors
 http://www.trustedsource.org/blog/153/Rise-Of-The-PDF-Exploits
increasingly target PDF files as an infection vector. Keep your browser
plugins updated. From the article: "The Portable Document Format (PDF)
isone of the file formats of choice commonly used in today's
enterprises, since it's widely deployed across different operating 
systems. But on a down-side this format has also known vulnerabilites 
which are exploited in the wild. Secure Computing's Anti-Malware 
Research Labs spotted a new and yet unknown exploit toolkit which 
exclusively targets Adobe's PDF
format."

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