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Just watched Kevin Mitnick use some of these PDF exploits in front of an audience to root a fully patched Windows system. If you want to use Adobe Reader you s
by godzillabrennus 10y ago
Just watched Kevin Mitnick use some of these PDF exploits in front of an audience to root a fully patched Windows system.
If you want to use Adobe Reader you should be using http://www.bromium.com http://www.bromium.com on the endpoints.
- apaprocki 10y agoOr other equivalent tech. We achieve something similar by activating hot standby VMs on remote servers to launch certain file formats. It was slow at first but now opening it is somewhere around 500ms-1s so it is not a burden on the end user and just fades into the background.
- shshhdhs 10y agoWould you please describe this further? Is this triggered whenever Outlook receives a file attachment, or when Exchange receives it? And how?
- apaprocki 10y agoWithout getting into too much detail, it is end-point driven. The user says "I want to continue doing this thing" and it proceeds in a more secure manner completely segregated from your desktop. If you had a generic mechanism to be able to open, say, a browser or Acrobat, or whatever else you felt like in this manner you could dream of the ways you might integrate it into the end-point.