January 04, 2007

Not even PDFs are safe - Security hole in Acrobat Plugin

A plugin for Acrobat Reader has a major security hole, so please, please, please be careful and only open trusted PDFs for a while until a patch is available.

from: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007051&source=NLT_SEC&nlid=38

"January 03, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- Security researchers are poring over what one vendor has called a "breathtaking" weakness in the Web browser plug-in for Adobe Systems Inc.'s Acrobat Reader program used to open files in the popular Portable Document Format. "


Browse safely!
jk

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