Adobe has acknowledged that its widely used programs for creating and reading PDF files currently are under attack by hackers, but it has offered little information about how it plans to thwart the assault. In an advisory posted on its website Wednesday, Adobe said essentially all versions of its Acrobat and Reader programs running on Windows, Macintosh and Unix-based machines have been exposed to a “critical vulnerability that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.”
I'm disappointed, but not surprised.
I have long considered Adobe's products to be at much higher risk of attack than even those of Microsoft, taking into consideration company size, market share, etc.
Seems like every week their is another exploit found in a Adobe product. Its either Flash or Adobe Reader. I am thinking maybe I should just uninstall both until they get their act together?
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New Zero-Day Attack Riddles Adobe Reader
Posted by: Sidney Hill September 9, 2010 10:36 AMAdobe has acknowledged that its widely used programs for creating and reading PDF files currently are under attack by hackers, but it has offered little information about how it plans to thwart the assault. In an advisory posted on its website Wednesday, Adobe said essentially all versions of its Acrobat and Reader programs running on Windows, Macintosh and Unix-based machines have been exposed to a “critical vulnerability that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.”
I have long considered Adobe's products to be at much higher risk of attack than even those of Microsoft, taking into consideration company size, market share, etc.