Is Adobe Leaving The Web Open to Attack?

Author: Ryan Naraine
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From internetnews.com (Sean Michael Kerner)
 
Tens of millions of people around the world use Adobe’s Flash and PDF reader technologies. How many of them update regularly?

The issue of updated Flash and Adobe Acrobat PDF clients is an important one, as Adobe recently patched both technologies for security vulnerabilities that could expose users to risk. Yet security vendor Trusteer recently examined its own users and found that at least 80 percent were running unpatched versions of Flash and Adobe Acrobat. Read the full story [internetnews.com]

From internetnews.com (Sean Michael Kerner)
 
Tens of millions of people around the world use Adobe’s Flash and PDF reader technologies. How many of them update regularly?

The issue of updated Flash and Adobe Acrobat PDF clients is an important one, as Adobe recently patched both technologies for security vulnerabilities that could expose users to risk. Yet security vendor Trusteer recently examined its own users and found that at least 80 percent were running unpatched versions of Flash and Adobe Acrobat. Read the full story [internetnews.com]

 

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