Security & Privacy

At the recent Black Hat security conference, a vulnerability in Adobe’s Acrobat and Reader software was demonstrated. This vulnerability “could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,” and affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.3 (and earlier), and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.2.3 (and earlier). Adobe considers this a critical vulnerability. This affects versions of these programs for Windows, Mac and Unix.

More information is available from Adobe’s security bulletin. Mac users can download Adobe Reader here, and can download Acrobat here. You can also use the programs’ auto-update features.