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 ...

There are times when a PDF truly needs encryption—for instance, if it contains sensitive information and someone just emailed it to you (let’s hope they used another communications method to send you ...

The World Wide Web can be a dangerous place, and if you use a computer in your small business, you need to protect your sensitive data. One way to protect your data is by encrypting PDF files. If you ...

Encrypted PDFs play a vital role in protecting sensitive information, especially during online distribution. By ensuring that only those with the correct password can access the content, encryption ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe you have faced this problem some time. You just forget to decrypt the file first and instead directly copied the file in its encrypted form to another Windows computer. Now when you try to open ...

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 ...