PDF is now a formal standard, widely used open platform as evidenced by more than 250 million PDF documents circulating on the web today. Multiple vulnerabilities
the highest level of security experienced by the PDF format, the last of which took Adobe recently launching a new version of Reader, has led many voices match to call attention to the insecurity of this format and the need for a new standard.
recently during the Virus Bulletin conference, 97% of security experts who participated in a survey on the future of the popular Adobe format, agreed on the timely removal of the PDF as a standard.
Adobe format is the focus of numerous attacks by hackers around the world, and despite the constantly updated with security bulletins and patches extraordinary has become one of the most vulnerable software, so it starts generate a movement that does not seem eager to give more time to a standard in place for years.
However, some opinions for the continuity of PDF are letting themselves hear. In this sense, the group of Internet Users Association, expressed his opposition to abolishing the Adobe format, if requested improvements in safety programs that work with these because in his opinion the problem lies in the applications used to view PDF. Netmedia
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