Fixes Flash flaw in Reader, Acrobat; beware of malicious PDFs touting news
Computerworld - Adobe on Thursday patched a critical bug in Adobe Reader, its popular PDF viewer, beating its self-imposed deadline by several days.
Adobe owned up to a Flash Player flaw last week after an independent researcher found exploits in embedded Flash files within Microsoft Word and Excel files attached to emails.
It was the second time in four weeks that Adobe had to acknowledge a Flash "zero-day," or unpatched vulnerability that hackers were exploiting.
The Flash bug also existed in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, both of which include code that renders Flash content inserted into PDF files. Read More
