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February 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: A rough start for 2022

January 2022 Patch Tuesday was a rough one for Microsoft — and us. In the week following Patch Tuesday, Microsoft was forced to pull and subsequently re-issue several updates …

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August Patch Tuesday forecast: Looking ahead after a frustrating July

Approaching August Patch Tuesday, we are supposed to be in the ‘dog days’ of summer where everything slows down. Unfortunately, July was full of CVEs and stability fixes with …

Pwn2Own ends with Adobe Flash, Reader and Oracle Java exploits

Day two of the Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest was again successful for French Vupen security, as they succeeded in exploiting Adobe Flash on Internet Explorer 9 on Windows …

Adobe patches Acrobat and Reader, Mozilla debuts Firefox built-in PDF viewer

Adobe has pushed out the announced update for Acrobat and Reader that patches the two vulnerabilities that were recently exploited in attacks in the wild. But, the popularity …

Firefox will block by default nearly all plugins

Following the recent debacle of the critical Java 0-day that was being actively exploited in the wild, in an attempt to minimize its users’ attack surface Mozilla has …

Video demonstration: New Adobe Reader zero-day exploit

Russian based security company Group-IB announced a new zero day vulnerability in Adobe Reader 10 and 11. According to their research, the exploit bypasses Reader’s …

Adobe patches 14 holes in Reader and Acrobat

Adobe has issued new versions of Reader and Acrobat, patching 14 vulnerabilities. Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader X (10.1) and earlier versions …

Phishing scam offers fake Adobe Reader upgrade

Spam campaigns that target Adobe users are rather common, but there are always some users that haven’t heard about them and fall for the scam that offers them a fake …

Spotify has been displaying malicious ads

Streaming music service Spotify has been displaying malicious ads to users of their Free version. The ads lead to websites that used the Blackhole Exploit Kit to infect users …

Adobe Reader X critical vulnerabilities patched

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader X (10.0) for Windows and Macintosh; Adobe Reader 9.4.1 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX; and …

Targeted attacks on Abobe Reader files rise

GFI Software revealed continuing high levels of rogue security products circulating during January, and a surge in malware that takes aim at vulnerabilities within Adobe …

Adobe patches Reader and Acrobat

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (and earlier versions) for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 (and earlier versions) for …

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