At the end of last month, Vnu.net ran the article with the above title.
According to the article, Adobe issued a security alert about a serious flaw in all shipping versions of its Reader software, affecting PC, Apple and Unix versions.
The flaw, which had come to light on 4/29 concerned Reader’s execution of JavaScript, and allowed attackers to run code on targeted systems or crash the application.
It also said: “Adobe plans to provide updates for all supported versions for all platforms (Windows, Macintosh and Unix) to resolve this issue.”
Some security experts are even recommending that users switch to free, alternative document readers.
A list of readers can be found at http://pdfreaders.org/. Others are Foxit and CutePDF.”
Of course, Mac users are probably already using Preview or PDFpen.
Read the full article here.
