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thewayneComing later this year, and it might only be sandboxed for Windows XP and above, it will do a better job of preventing malicious code from launching from within a malicious PDF. It will not be back-ported to older versions of Reader.
"“This will help us protect against most of the attacks we’re seeing today. The attacker will end up in a sandbox and will need a second attack to escape to do [dangerous things].” Arkin said.
Arkin made it clear that sandboxes are not guaranteed bulletproof perfect. It will not protect users against all types of security attacks such as phishing, clickjacking, weak cryptography or unauthorized network access."
I'm curious if they're going to apply this to Mac/*nix, or whether that is needed.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/adobe-adding-sandbox-to-pdf-reader-to-ward-off-hacker-attacks/6886
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/20/2018200/Adobe-Putting-PDF-Reader-In-a-Sandbox
"“This will help us protect against most of the attacks we’re seeing today. The attacker will end up in a sandbox and will need a second attack to escape to do [dangerous things].” Arkin said.
Arkin made it clear that sandboxes are not guaranteed bulletproof perfect. It will not protect users against all types of security attacks such as phishing, clickjacking, weak cryptography or unauthorized network access."
I'm curious if they're going to apply this to Mac/*nix, or whether that is needed.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/adobe-adding-sandbox-to-pdf-reader-to-ward-off-hacker-attacks/6886
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/20/2018200/Adobe-Putting-PDF-Reader-In-a-Sandbox
