Symantec: Zero-day PDF exploit confirmed

Symantec has confirmed that there is indeed a zero-day “Xmas exploit” that target both Adobe Acrobat and Reader. The zero-day vulnerability is said to be triggered by malicious PDF attachments which unknowingly being opened by recipients. “The PDF files we discovered arrives as an email attachment. The attack attempts to lure email recipients into opening [...]

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Adobe releases patch for Flash hole

Adobe just released a patch for a Flash Player problem that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Updates are available for most Flash installations on Windows, Mac and Linux computers. The critical vulnerabilities were identified to have affected a file that shipped with Flash Player 9.x and 10.x [...]

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