Adobe splats bucketful of bugs in Acrobat and Reader

If you thought that Adobe skipped this month’s Patch Tuesday because there were no immediate vulnerabilities to fix, you were wrong: a week later the company dropped security updates for several of its products, including Acrobat and Reader and t… Continue reading Adobe splats bucketful of bugs in Acrobat and Reader

Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Security Patches for 82 Flaws in Various Products

No, it’s not a patch Tuesday.

It’s the third Tuesday of the month, and as The Hacker News shared an early heads-up late last week on Twitter, Adobe today finally released pre-announced out-of-band security updates to patch a total of 82 security vulne… Continue reading Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Security Patches for 82 Flaws in Various Products

PDFex attacks can exfiltrate content from encrypted PDF documents

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and Münster University of Applied Sciences have devised new attacks allowing them (and potential attackers) to recover the plaintext content of encrypted PDF documents. The attacks work against 27 widely-used des… Continue reading PDFex attacks can exfiltrate content from encrypted PDF documents

Adobe Releases Critical Patches for Flash, Acrobat Reader, and Media Encoder

Adobe today released its monthly software updates to patch a total of 87 security vulnerabilities in its Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Flash Player and Media Encoder, most of which could lead to arbitrary code execution attacks or worse.

None of the flaws… Continue reading Adobe Releases Critical Patches for Flash, Acrobat Reader, and Media Encoder

April 2019 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes two actively exploited bugs

Microsoft has plugged 74 CVE-numbered security holes on this April 2019 Patch Tuesday, including two vulnerabilities actively exploited by attackers. All of the bugs are rated either Critical or Important. Adobe has also released security updates for m… Continue reading April 2019 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes two actively exploited bugs

Adobe Releases Security Patches for Flash, Acrobat Reader, Other Products

Good morning readers, it’s Patch Tuesday again—the day of the month when Adobe and Microsoft release security patches for their software.

Adobe just released its monthly security updates to address a total of 40 security vulnerabilities in several of … Continue reading Adobe Releases Security Patches for Flash, Acrobat Reader, Other Products

Patch Tuesday, February 2019 Edition

Microsoft on Tuesday issued a bevy of patches to correct at least 70 distinct security vulnerabilities in Windows and software designed to interact with various flavors of the operating system. This month’s patch batch tackles some notable threats to e… Continue reading Patch Tuesday, February 2019 Edition

Adobe Releases February 2019 Patch Updates For 75 Vulnerabilities

Welcome back!

Adobe has today released its monthly security updates to address a total of 75 security vulnerabilities across its various products, 71 of which resides in Adobe Acrobat and Reader alone.

February 2019 patch Tuesday updates address seve… Continue reading Adobe Releases February 2019 Patch Updates For 75 Vulnerabilities