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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Is there any way to password-protect and lock a sensitive PDF file before sending it as an attachment through email? I cannot afford Adobe Acrobat Pro and free primopdf didn’t work for me. Any help ...

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 ...