How to Remove Encryption From a PDF File. The World Wide Web can be a dangerous place, and if you use a computer in your small business, you need to protect your sensitive data.

How Does PDF Encryption Work?. Adobe's PDF format allows you to combine text and images into portable document files which are easy to share with employees, print or store for later use. As the ...

Researchers in Germany have invented a new hack that can allow someone to break the encryption of PDF files and access their content — or even forge signed PDF files under certain circumstances.

The PDF standard supports native encryption so that PDF apps can encrypt files that can be opened by any other app, and prevent user lock-in for one specific PDF software due to the use of shady ...

The researchers found that in certain BlackCat encryption modes, many objects in PDF files remain unaffected, allowing the data to be extracted.. In the case of image streams, recovering them is ...

Adeptshare has announced PDF Decrypter Pro 1.0 for Mac OS X. It’s a utility designed to instantly decrypt password protected PDF files. Once decrypted, the PDF file can be edited, printed, and have ...

In combination with further PDF features which allow the loading of external resources via HTTP, the attacker can run direct exfiltration attacks once a victim opens the file. PDF encryption uses ...

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 ...

Adeptshare has released PDF Decrypter Pro 2.2 for macOS, an update of their utility designed to decrypt password protected PDF files. Once decrypted, the PDF file can be edited, printed, and have text ...

There are times when a PDF truly needs encryption—for instance, if it contains sensitive information and someone just emailed it to you (let’s hope they used another communications method to ...