Accidental release of sensitive information

In the past several years, federal agencies and private-sector companies have released documents on the Internet that they thought did not contain sensitive content, but they actually did. That has led to embarrassment, scandals, firings and national security breaches when unintended readers discovered the hidden data.

Microsoft has created the Remove Hidden Data (RHD) plug-in for Office 2003.
Adobe Systems has a PDF Optimizer tool that can examine hidden data.
Sadly, analysts disagree whether the tools work.

Read the full article HERE.