Adobe seen as top 2010 hacker target

Net-security firm McAfee predicts that Microsoft will no longer be the primary target for hackers next year. Instead, these evil villains of the Web will turn their attention to Adobe. Evidence of this is the already growing number of attacks targeted to the vulnerabilities in Acrobat Reader and Flash this year. And with the tricky update [...]

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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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