{"id":175395,"date":"2016-08-10T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T07:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175395"},"modified":"2016-08-10T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T07:12:13","slug":"windows-10-default-pdf-reader-put-users-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175395-windows-10-default-pdf-reader-put-users-at-risk.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 default PDF reader put users at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently released its monthly security patch, and among the security bulletins was a critical vulnerability in the Windows PDF library, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/annoying-open-pdf-in-edge-default-option-puts-windows-10-users-in-danger-507138.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Softpedia reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report,\u00a0attackers could embed\u00a0malicious code\u00a0in\u00a0the header of a PDF file that\u00a0a Windows machine using the library would then execute.<\/p>\n<p>By default, Windows 10 asks you whether to open PDF files in its default browser &#8211; Edge.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0an\u00a0attacker managed to get you\u00a0to access an infected PDF file, the exploit code would cause a memory corruption issue &#8211; which Softpedia said would let\u00a0the attacker execute custom code on the Windows machine.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/175359-netflix-rolling-out-https-streaming.html\"><strong>Netflix rolling out HTTPS streaming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175291-advanced-cyber-espionage-malware-discovered.html\"><strong>Advanced cyber-espionage malware discovered<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175287-point-of-sale-credit-card-payment-systems-compromised.html\"><strong>Point-of-sale credit card payment systems compromised<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/175166-hackers-can-take-control-of-your-pc-monitor.html\"><strong>Hackers can take control of your PC monitor<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175154-linux-risk-in-windows-10-exposed.html\"><strong>Linux risk in Windows 10 exposed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flaw in the Windows PDF library left users at risk to a remote code execution exploit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,123,16194,26970],"class_list":["post-175395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-pdf-reader","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175401,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175395\/revisions\/175401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}