Small businesses working with sensitive PDF documents may choose to encrypt those documents. An encrypted PDF is password protected, which means you cannot open the document unless you type in the ...

Maybe there was a time when you wanted to lock away certain pages in a PDF, but you didn’t have the tools to get it done. Well, those days are over due to the release of an interesting software known ...

Security researchers at Ruhr University Bochum and Westphalia Wilhelm University in Germany announced that they have discovered an attack technique that can steal encrypted PDF content without a ...

The big picture: PDF encryption, as you can imagine, is commonly used in the world of business to protect trade secrets, confidential images and even health records. Some even send e-mail messages as ...

Researchers have developed a new technique that allows attackers to extract contents of a password-protected or encrypted PDF file under special conditions. In a paper — titled “Practical Decryption ...

With a few steps you can set up an easy way to encrypt PDF files generated from the standard print dialog window. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

PDF files, even with extra encryption, could be easily hacked, a team academics has found. The new attack, called PDFex, comes in two variations and in testing, it was successfully able to steal data ...

Most of us share documents via email. But what if it’s a digital copy of your birth certificate, a sensitive medical record, or a confidential legal document? I want to ensure that only the intended ...

Russian-backed hackers are using malware disguised as a PDF encryption tool to steal your information. According to the Threat Analysis Group report, Coldriver will send victims encrypted PDFs. When ...