Adobe will release an emergency patch, expected within two weeks, to plug a security flaw in Adobe Reader, the latest in a series of the program's recent vulnerabilities. The problem is, this flaw was found through a presentation at the Black Hat conference last week, and not by Adobe's security team.
Perhaps Adobe should put the presenter, Charlie Miller, an analyst with Independent Security Evaluators, on the payroll? Maybe then it can become proactive rather than reactive in meeting its clients' needs.
Miller's presentation, based on his white paper, illustrates how the bug allows a ne'er-do-well to gain control of a computer by exploiting a critical glitch in how Adobe Reader parses fonts in portable document format (PDF).
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Perhaps Adobe should put the presenter, Charlie Miller, an analyst with Independent Security Evaluators, on the payroll? Maybe then it can become proactive rather than reactive in meeting its clients' needs.
Miller's presentation, based on his white paper, illustrates how the bug allows a ne'er-do-well to gain control of a computer by exploiting a critical glitch in how Adobe Reader parses fonts in portable document format (PDF).
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/bizfeed/202753/