Dennis Fisher talks with Didier Stevens, the security researcher who developed the innovative method for using the /launch command in PDF readers to execute code on remote machines. Stevens discusses the ramifications of the discovery, the security of PDFs in general and the user behavior that makes these attacks more effective.
Dennis Fisher talks with Didier Stevens, the security researcher who developed the innovative method for using the /launch command in PDF readers to execute code on remote machines. Stevens discusses the ramifications of the discovery, the security of PDFs in general and the user behavior that makes these attacks more effective.
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