<story><title>Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18238326#?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>LiquidSummer</author><text>I always hesitate a little bit when I open a pdf, specially when it is one on malware</text></item><item><author>thursley</author><text>More technical details (pdf) on:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although the naming differs it has been noted on several blogs that it is the same malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FreakLegion</author><text>Note that while the &lt;i&gt;exploit&lt;/i&gt; is in the PDF, the &lt;i&gt;vulnerability&lt;/i&gt; is in the PDF reader. In practice, Adobe&apos;s software is the only attack surface anyone ever exploits, so you can read exploit-laden PDFs worry-free by using a less popular alternative. The same is true with Word/Excel files, etc.&lt;p&gt;You should still have some kind of comprehensive security solution in place, particularly for a business environment, but use of non-standard software is an effective fail-safe for when your &quot;real&quot; security craps out on you (as it inevitably will).</text></comment>
<story><title>Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18238326#?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>LiquidSummer</author><text>I always hesitate a little bit when I open a pdf, specially when it is one on malware</text></item><item><author>thursley</author><text>More technical details (pdf) on:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although the naming differs it has been noted on several blogs that it is the same malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>It depends: will you render it using Adobe&apos;s software?</text></comment>