Though DAT files, which house data as the shortened name implies, are usually best left alone, here's how you can open them.

The simplest route requires a PDF printer driver. This is a program that appears to Windows as a print driver, but instead of sending data to a printer, it creates a PDF file.

German academics have developed a new attack that can extract and steal data from encrypted PDF files, sometimes without user interaction. Named PDFex, the new attack comes in two variations and ...