Malware Infested PDFs Ruled 2009 Exploits

Author: Donald Sears

February 16, 2010 3:37 pm

A newly released report shows that based on more than a trillion Web requests processed in 2009, the use of malicious PDF files exploiting flaws in Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat not only outpaced the use of Flash exploits, but also, grew to 80% of all exploits the company encountered throughout the year. Read the full article. [ZDNet]

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