Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries
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New authentication software could help news agencies -- stung by doctored images -- detect digital darkroom trickery. By Randy Dotinga.
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Adobe on Thursday acknowledged in a security advisory that critical security vulnerabilities have been found in its Acrobat and Adobe Reader programs. The issue affects versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.8, and the company says it is working on a fix.
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Controversy over the veracity of recently released Bush National Guard memos has put the spotlight on digital forgery. These days, computers make document fakery easier -- and harder to detect -- than ever before. By Randy Dotinga.
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Adobe patched its Reader and Acrobat programs today to fix a vulnerability that left most Windows XP users exposed to exploits arriving as malicious PDF files.
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Adding to its offerings for digital imaging and video hobbyists, Adobe Systems on Wednesday announced a new video-editing package and an update to its Photoshop Elements image-editing product.
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Adobe late with Photoshop Elements for Mac...iStockphoto tightens model release requirements...Canon 5D Mark II rumor...PDF now an ISO standard
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Adobe's newest addition to the Photoshop family is a workflow manager for professional photogs, Flickr-heads and camera nerds of all stripes. By Scott Gilbertson.
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Adobe this week updated its Acrobat and Reader software to fix vulnerabilities spotted by Reston, Vir.-based security intelligence firm iDefense.
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Adobe (Quote, Chart) today unveiled a new offering with partner GeoTrust to help verify the integrity and authenticity of documents.
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Adobe Systems Inc. has released fixes for three critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player that could let hackers infect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems.
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The flaws disclosed last week in Adobe System&#39;s Reader and Acrobat programs have been used to exploit computers since at least January via malicious banner advertisements, security analysts are reporting.Adobe issued patches&#160;last Wednesday for Reader and Acrobat, but the company did not detail the flaws.Problems with Adobe&#39;s software can potentially affect millions of PC users, since the company&#39;s software is widely used to read PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Most people regard PDFs as harmless.&quot;From our standpoint, it appears that this PDF-based attack has been quite successful, affecting many thousands of users throughout the world,&quot; wrote Hon Lau on Symantec&#39;s Security Response Weblog.Greg McManus of iDefense Labs, the security arm of VeriSign, reported one of the vulnerabilities to Adobe in October, according to a post by the SANS Institute, a computer security organization.Since hackers have been apparently using the Adobe flaws since January, it raises the question how they discovered the flaw.Lau wrote that the &quot;swiftness of the exploit appearing in the wild suggests that leaks had occurred.&quot;However, it appears that the vulnerabilities in Reader and Acrobat were disclosed in a responsible way, Lau wrote.The flaws in the programs allow a hacker to create a malicious PDF document. If opened by a victim, that document downloads a malicious Trojan that Symantec calls &quot;Zonebac.&quot;Zonebac was first detected in 2006. It shuts off a user&#39;s security software as well as downloads other bad software. The latest version also appears to taint search engine results, Lau wrote.In January, iDefense noticed that the malicious PDF document was being delivered through malicious banner advertisements. Symantec&#39;s Lau wrote that it&#39;s not immediately clear how the PDF file is delivered, but that the banner ads could be redirecting people to other harmful Web sites with the file. Also, spam messages may be carrying the bad file as an attachment.Malicious banner ads can be particularly dangerous since the ads can show up on legitimate Web sites. Online advertising companies have struggled to keep these ads off their networks. Sometimes, hackers will approach the networks with what is a legitimate ad and then substitute it for a malicious one. Many of those bad ads have exploited vulnerabilities in Adobe&#39;s Flash multimedia technology.Adobe&#39;s Reader and Acrobat are designed to regularly look for updates, but users are advised to upgrade to the patched version, 8.1.2.&#160;
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PDF peril Adobe users are being urged to upgrade their software after the firm reassessed the impact of a recently discovered vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 7.â¦
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Computer code that takes advantage of a flaw in the way many Microsoft Corp. applications process JPEG images has been published on the Internet and could be a precursor to actual attacks on vulnerable PCs, experts said.
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Adobe Repairs Reader, Acrobat Flaws Information Week
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Security researcher Petko Petkov has revealed a new zero-day flaw effecting Adobe's popular PDF format.
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Now that digital cameras have overtaken film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a familiar problem -- what to do with the bulging image files and folders filling up computer hard drives?
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Raw image editing and cataloging software gets support for Windows Vista and Adobe file formats.