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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: attacks aimed adobe reader acrobat flaws intensify comments Discuss  
The flaws disclosed last week in Adobe System's Reader and Acrobat programs have been used to exploit computers since at least January via malicious banner advertisements, security analysts are reporting. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 199 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: neosploit updated include acrobat exploit comments Discuss  
On about April 18th, Symantec's DeepSight honeypots began capturing a new iteration of the Neosploit exploit toolkit. It appears that the pervasive exploit kit has been updated to take advantage of a circa February 2008 vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Professional and Reader. What makes this attack vector of particular concern is that it will work reasonably silently through most browsers. If a user is enticed to a hostile Web site (who knows which ones are hostile these days) using the browser of their cho read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 148 days ago
Via: https://forums.symantec.com | Tags: neosploit updated include acrobat exploit comments Discuss  
On about April 18th, Symantec's DeepSight honeypots began capturing a new iteration of the Neosploit exploit toolkit. It appears that the pervasive exploit kit has been updated to take advantage of a circa February 2008 vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Professional and Reader. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 148 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: security update adobe reader acrobat comments Discuss  
Adobe has issued a security update for its Adobe Acrobat and free Adobe Reader applications. The patch plugs a critical flaw that Adobe said attackers could leverage to take control of a vulnerable system. The latest update, available here for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X systems, applies to the most recent versions of Acrobat and Reader (v. 8.1.2). It also plugs the vulnerability in the following Adobe products: -Adobe Reader 7.0.9 and earlier...Please click on the title to continue reading this en read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 15 days ago
Via: http://voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: adobe issues critical acrobat reader updates comments Discuss  
Adobe has issued a software update to fix at least eight security flaws in its Acrobat and Adobe Reader applications, that if left unpatched could be used by attackers to take control of vulnerable systems, the company said. The vulnerabilities affect Acrobat and Reader versions 8.1.2 and earlier. Adobe characterizes this as a "critical" update -- its most serious rating -- meaning the flaws could let an attacker run and install malicious software on a...Please click on the title to continue reading this e read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 13 days ago
Via: https://forums.symantec.com | Tags: acrobat utilprintf vulnerability detected existing ips signatures comments Discuss  
It appears that last night, an exploit for the Acrobat util.printf() vulnerability was added to a well known Web attack toolkit. The attack exists as a compressed PDF. Once decompressed, the exploit is encoded with a simple eval()+concatenation block: read more »
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