Since the start of the year, Adobe issued eight separate security updates for the products, in some cases after the vulnerabilities were already being exploited by bad guys across the Internet.Īlthough most of us think of PDF files merely as an easy way to share text documents and forms, the PDF format is actually a very complex structure capable of supporting all sorts of embedded content and logic. First the bad news: since January 2010, there have been around 60 vulnerabilities reported for Adobe Reader and Acrobat for Mac, nearly all of which are rated with a “high” severity, according to the When it comes to security, 2010 has been a watershed year for Adobe. And the very flexibility that allows a PDF file to include everything from a complex presentation, to a government form, to a high-end catalog, creates a wide attack surface for criminals to take advantage of. Target a single program widely used on Macs, Windows PCs, and Linux systems. But it’s very popularity and ubiquity is a challenge to security allowing attackers to Supported by a free viewer (Adobe Reader) on all major computing platforms, it allows people to read faithfully rendered documents created in hundreds of programs (either natively or converted to PDF using Adobe Acrobat). Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is the single most popular file format for sharing documents on the Internet.
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