Tag archive: Acrobat

If you use Adobe's Flash Player at all, tread cautiously. The company released a security advisory late yesterday revealing that a “critical vulnerability” was found in pretty much all versions of the multimedia platform as well as in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Affected versions include: “Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.33 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.18 and earlier for Chrome users) for Windows,… Read More

Less than a week after warning users about a zero-day exploit in its PDF software, Adobe found another zero-day exploit in Flash. Adobe said hackers are already taking advantage of a critical flow in the current version of Flash to attack Windows PCs to “cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control.” Despite Adobe’s claims that the attacks are “limited” and “targeted” only at Windows users, the flaw is pretty far-reaching. All… Read More

Adobe identified a critical vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader on Tuesday, but said today that attackers were already exploiting this bug. All versions of Acrobat and Reader 8 and 9 for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix are open to attack. Even the latest versions, 8.2.4 and 9.3.4 are not safe. Other PDF reading alternatives, such as Foxit Reader, are not affected. Masquerading as a harmless PDF file, this exploit has malformed font and image… Read More

Adobe Acrobat isn't just "digital paper" anymore, it's more like digital clay. Adobe announced Acrobat 3D version 8 on Wednesday, which allows PDF files to carry three dimensional data, such as CAD models. Unlike the kind of flat design views that could have been transmitted with the conventional version of Acrobat, the  models allow viewers to actually flip, rotate and pan around them in 3D. The newest features… Read More