Comments on: Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths

By: Falha no Internet Explorer permite o vazamento de 50 milhões de arquivos confidenciais | D. G. Na Web

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:00:54 +0000

[...] como prefere ser chamado o pesquisador do blog SecureThoughts, explica que documentos ‘impressos’ em PDF, a partir do IE, usando ferramentas como [...]

By: PDF’s op websites lekken privégegevens - Paone Techinfo

PDF’s op websites lekken privégegevens - Paone Techinfo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:27:19 +0000

[...] met verwijzingen naar interne schijflocaties, stelt beveiligingsbureau Inferno op basis van een eigen onderzoek. Volgens Inferno betekent dit een privacyrisico. Schijflocaties bevatten immers vaak de namen van [...]

By: Bookmarks for November 3rd through December 16th at Ed Smiley’s Blog

Bookmarks for November 3rd through December 16th at Ed Smiley’s Blog — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:10:29 +0000

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blog index — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:29:19 +0000

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By: Galameth

Galameth — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:28:29 +0000

I had forgotten how fun google hack searching could be till I did your suggested search with .gov, .mil, etc.

filetype:pdf file c .gov
filetype:pdf file c .mil

and so on.

By: David

David — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:02:48 +0000

I found my userID in a PDF that I printed to the Adobe PDF printer from our corporate web site. This was not a html file on my local machine. It was embedded as myuserID

By: Falla en Internet Explorer expone a usuarios de archivos PDF : Blogografia

Falla en Internet Explorer expone a usuarios de archivos PDF : Blogografia — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:21:38 +0000

[...] Pese a que sus versiones posteriores son mucho más confiables, la ignota firma de seguridad Inferno reveló que todas las ediciones de IE son vulnerables a una falla que involucra a los archivos PDF. “Encontré un interesante problema de privacidad, que ocurre cuando se usa Internet Explorer para imprimir páginas web guardadas en el disco duro como PDF y afecta a todas las versiones, incluida IE8″, explicó esta desconocida empresa en su blog. [...]

By: Problemas de seguridad en Internet Explorer | Shadow Security

Problemas de seguridad en Internet Explorer | Shadow Security — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:57:55 +0000

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By: Problemas de seguridad en Internet Explorer - Foros de Informatica - Foro de Windows 7, Foro de ayuda, Noticias de Informatica, Windows 7 y Windows Vista

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:13 +0000

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By: Inferno

Inferno — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:59:32 +0000

@Steve, yes i did talk to Adobe about this. They have a bug logged on their side as well, however they were unable to confirm if the fix can make up in the next quarterly patch cycle. please note that this bug is hard to coordinate and get fixed on their side since it will require getting every third party pdf print driver fixed, in addition to acrobat professional. on IE side, it is much easier since they need to pass the filename in title attribute rather than the entire disk path.