Adobe Vulnerabilities Open Users To Targeted Attacks
Alerts about dangerous vulnerabilities in popular software products seem to be a weekly occurrence these days. But the threat level was cranked up a notch this week because of a serious flaw in Adobe Reader.
Earlier this week researchers detected a pair of dangerous zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader that were being actively exploited in a series of targeted attacks with malicious PDF files. The vulnerabilities were the result of coding errors in every version of the software, including Reader X and Reader XI.
That incident came just after Adobe issued its second update in less than a week to its Flash Player to repair 17 critical vulnerabilities.
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