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Article | 21/06/2010 Google Chrome gets 'native' PDF support
Google has started using its next generation plug-in API to embed support for Adobe Acrobat PDFs more deeply into the Chrome browser. The company beli...
Article | 8/04/2010 Adobe preps PDF patches for Reader
Adobe on Thursday will announce the patches it plans to deliver next week for its PDF software, a part of its quarterly security update process.
Article | 7/04/2010 Adobe considers changes to mitigate PDF attack
Adobe Systems is considering modifying its PDF applications to counter a way to run arbitrary code on Windows computers by embedding it in a malicious...
Article | 6/04/2010 Malicious PDF file doesn't need a software vulnerability
A security researcher has found a way to run arbitrary code on Windows computers by embedding it in a malicious PDF file.
Article | 11/03/2010 Hackers love to exploit PDF bugs, says researcher
Hackers adore Adobe Reader, and have pushed it into first place as the software most often exploited in targeted attacks, a Finnish security company s...
Article | 17/02/2010 Adobe issues emergency PDF patches
Adobe today released an emergency update that patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in its popular PDF viewing and editing software.
Article | 17/02/2010 Rogue PDFs account for 80% of all exploits, says researcher
Just hours before Adobe is slated to deliver the latest patches for its popular PDF viewer, a security firm announced that by its counting, malicious ...
Article | 15/01/2010 Hackers used IE zero-day, not PDF, in China-Google attacks
Hackers exploited an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser to break into some of the firms targeted in a widespread at...
Article | 14/01/2010 Hackers used rigged PDFs to hit Google -- and Adobe, says researcher
Adobe today confirmed that the cyberattack that hit its corporate network earlier this month was connected to the large-scale attacks Google cited yes...
Article | 15/12/2009 Adobe probes new in-the-wild PDF bug
Adobe confirmed late on Monday that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the most up-to-date version of its PDF viewing and editing applications.
Article | 7/12/2009 Lawsuit alleges Palm Pre violates copyright
Artifex Software is suing Palm over the PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer in Palm's Pre smartphone, it said on Thursday.
Article | 4/09/2009 Apple ships vulnerable Flash version with new Mac OS
Mac users may be surprised that versions of Apple's latest operating system, Snow Leopard, also installs an older version of Adobe System's Flash play...
Article | 21/07/2009 Adobe doles out bug-filled PDF Reader to users
Adobe delivers an out-of-date version of Reader to users who download the popular application from its Web site, a security company warned today.
Article | 5/06/2009 RIM patches BlackBerry PDF vulnerability
Research in Motion (<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/rim.html">RIM</a>) has issued a new security patch for <a href="http://www.net...
Article | 21/05/2009 Facing criticism, Adobe rethinks PDF security
Blasted three months ago for being slow to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its popular PDF viewer, Adobe today promised it will root out bugs in older...

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