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Attackers Infect Ads With Old Adobe Vulnerability

Posted by kdawson on from the old-bugs-are-the-best dept.

thethibs writes "eWeek is reporting that just as everyone is buzzing about the latest Adobe vulnerability, someone poisoned ads hosted by Ziff-Davis with an older Adobe exploit (affecting versions 8.12 and earlier, and long since patched). Z-D fixed the problem less than 24 hours after its first appearance. The interesting bit of this is that a bunch of people probably got hit with the old Trojan when they browsed to a story about the new one."

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  1. Re:another good reason...... by FlyingBishop · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I open PDF's in an external window, using Evince.

    But then that's Linux...

    Of course, you can do the same with Foxit or whatnot. I'll just stick with my system with sane, built-in sandboxing.

  2. What ads? by actionbastard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Jeez people, get with the program already.

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