Internet Security and Programming

This post was updated at 12:20 p.m. to clarify what’s new in this Adobe patch. See the update below the original post. Adobe has issued an update to plug at least eight security holes in its PDF Reader software. The latest patch brings the current, patched, version of Adobe to 8.1.2. If you’re reading this post on a system that has Adobe Reader installed, please take a moment now to download and apply this update. Cyber crooks have recently added Adobe vulnerabilities to “Neosploit,” a tool that automates the exploitation of outdated browser plug-ins when users visit certain malicious or hacked Web sites. As Symantec notes, you don’t have to be doing anything risky to get burned by running an outdated copy of Adobe Reader these days. Symantec writes: “If a user is enticed to a hostile Web site (who knows which ones are hostile these days) using [...]

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