Attackers have been exploiting one of the recently-revealed vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader for at least three weeks, security researchers said today, with one estimating the infection count at “many ...

As with any jailbreak or rooting of a handset, "hacking" a phone OS is usually exactly that: exploiting a weakness to get unsigned code onto a device. That means that any other hacker, be they ...

If you still need a reason to patch that installation of Adobe Reader, pay close attention to this discovery by Secure Computing's anti-malware research labs. The group has stumbled upon an exploit ...

Most people think of PDF documents as static pieces of information. How could a PDF file compromise your computer? The reality is that PDF documents can contain all sorts of stuff, and clever ...

Adobe Systems Inc. has confirmed that there’s a critical bug in its most popular programs, but it doesn’t yet have a patch that protects Windows XP users against attacks arriving as PDF files. In an ...

A security researcher has managed to create a proof-of-concept PDF file that executes an embedded executable without exploiting any security vulnerabilities. The PDF hack, when combined with clever ...

Awesome: A shiny new iOS update has just been released! iOS 4.3.4 is now available on iTunes. Not so awesome: As far as I can tell, there’s only one change here: Apple has fixed the PDF exploit that ...

Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions of Adobe Reader 9, 10 and 11. “Today, we ...

The authors have taken a bug and turned it into an exploit. Once the unsuspecting user visits the website or opens the PDF, this exploit will allow further malware to be dropped on the victim’s ...

Exploit targets a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe Reader, and works even if JavaScript support is disabled, Group-IB researchers say Cyber criminals are using a new PDF exploit that bypasses ...