Adobe ‘zero-day’ flaw is eight months old

The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe’s security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 (see image below) but it was misdiagnosed as a “data loss corruption” issue. When word of the attacks surfaced this week, Adobe quickly locked [...]

Another Day, a New Zero-Day Exploit for Adobe

It has been a busy week for Adobe as only a few days after the software company announced that it would put up a vulnerable PDF Reader on its download site, a more serious one bubbled up. Trend Micro researchers recently came across samples that exploited a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9.1.2 [...]