The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

As victims continued seeking justice for Epstein's crimes, online users claimed emailed mentions of food — jerky included — ...

As part of the 'DOOM Challenge' to install the FPS 'DOOM' on everything, 'DoomPDF', which ported DOOM to a PDF file, appeared in January 2025. DoomPDF uses the PDF JavaScript environment to represent ...

A new phishing and malware distribution toolkit called MatrixPDF allows attackers to convert ordinary PDF files into interactive lures that bypass email security and redirect victims to credential ...

PDFs remain a common way to share documents because they preserve formatting across devices and platforms. Sometimes, however, you end up with several separate PDFs that would be easier to handle as a ...

Recap: Early last month, someone used the PDF format's JavaScript support to run Tetris inside what should normally be a static text document. Predictably, within days, a high school student upgraded ...

WTF?! A clever security analyst has proven that PDFs are not just for boring documents and forms. He's managed to squeeze the classic Tetris game into a 60KB PDF file that can run right in your ...

Many workplaces and educational institutions have completely switched from paper documents to digital ones. Consequently, Mac users are increasingly dealing with PDFs and other e-document file formats ...

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