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This Week in PDF: Adobe releases updates as rumours of Microsoft buyout quashed

This week in PDF has seen Adobe in the news. A rumor of acquisition by Microsoft spread to Wall Street but was rapidly quashed, and it’s business as usual: with Adobe MAX 2010 just around the corner, new updates to Adobe Reader and Acrobat were released with more to come.
Read More »Adobe warns of security risks

Adobe has released a security advisory warning of vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, and Acrobat on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris operating systems.
Read More »New major malware attack for PDF users

Security companies alerted PDF users today of a new malware attack that hopes to exploit users of PDFs by using an unpatched design flaw in the PDF format. Mary Grace Gabriel, a research engineer in CA Inc.’s security group, stated on her blog, ‘CA ISBU recently received spam emails disguised as a legitimate email from ‘your Company System Admin’. The spam mail informs the recipient about a recent change in mailbox servers and requires the user to check the malicious PDF attachment containing the instructions to update mail settings.’
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