Users and enterprises often post documents, PDFs and other seemingly innocent files to their websites without so much as a second thought toward the security implications. Unfortunately, this leaves ...

Microsoft Office is one of the very popular productivity suites available today. One lesser-known feature of its documents is that whenever you create, open or save a document in Microsoft Word, Excel ...

Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...

Metadata is an interesting -- and often unrealized -- problem for anyone who uses office applications, like Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and Adobe Acrobat.I've written about it before because its ...