Views: 8,917 A lot of people have complained about the lack of security in Adobe PDF related products and the fact that the very architecture is insecure. There have been a whole spate of PDF related exploits and vulnerabilities lately – some of them being very serious. It’s good to see Adobe is taking this […]
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Email Worm Spreading Like Wildfire – W32.Imsolk/VBMania Variant
Views: 10,722 Oh this is a throw back to the 90s, a self-replicating e-mail worm based around a malicious screensaver (.scr) that sends itself to everyone in your address book. It seems this one is spreading fast though with hundreds of thousands of infections. Reminds of the heydays of ILOVEYOU and Anna Kournikova. A fast-moving […]
Adobe Scrambling To Fix Another Serious PDF Flaw
Views: 8,763 It was only the start of July when we talked about Adobe Patching PDF Vulnerabilities Being Exploited In The Wild and once again they are suffering a serious vulnerability which allows code execution from a malicious PDF document. This time the vulnerability came out during Black Hat and it seems to be serious […]
Adobe Patches PDF Vulnerabilities Being Exploited In The Wild
Views: 4,966 [ad] At least! Adobe has sorted itself out and released patches for 17 critical vulnerabilities in their Reader and Acrobat applications. We reported back in January about Active Exploitation Of Unpatched PDF Vulnerabilities. The latest slew of vulnerabilities has been actively exploited by hackers for at least the past month as detected in […]
Active Exploitation Of Unpatched PDF Vulnerability
Views: 5,100 [ad] Fairly wide-spread attacks based on the latest vulnerability in Adobe PDF Reader have been spotted by Symantec, they appear to be variants on old attacks but still can be very effective. It’s not the first time this has happened, back in February 2009 Hackers targeted a 0-day exploit in PDF Reader. With […]