In the video below Arkin talks about how the company is strengthening the underlying code for its products, responding to bug reports more quickly and moving to offering quarterly updates and automatic updates for Reader. "The landscape had really changed and it was very clear to us that we needed to respond," Arkin said.ĬNET's Tom Merritt sat down with Arkin to find out exactly what steps the company is taking to address concerns about the security of its products. Download Adobe Reader for Windows now from Softonic: 100 safe and virus free. Security experts urged people to avoid using Adobe software because of the problems.Īdobe had begun addressing the security problems the year before (as outlined in a blog post in December 2008 aptly entitled "We care"), but the JBIG2 issue marked a turning point for the company. About 80 percent of new exploits targeted Adobe's Reader and Acrobat in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to ScanSafe. That wasn't the only exploit targeting Adobe's PDF reader programs. It took us longer than we wanted it to," Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe, said in a recent interview with CNET. Firstly, Adobe Reader XI can be painfully slow at times and with the awesome amount of Adobe PDF documents are universally used in business, education and personal exchanges and the documents themselves can contain very rich graphics and diagrams There are several options such as whether to load the Adobe fonts, load the presets, and set the. "Our process was not optimized for rapid turn around. Even though there were reports that the hole was being exploited, it took Adobe nearly two months to issue a patch. To display PDFs using the built-in WebKit PDF viewer for Safari, open Adobe Reader (located in /Applications) and select 'Preferences' from the 'Adobe Reader' menu.Make sure that the option. On January 16, 2009, Adobe learned about a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 involving the JBIG2 image compression standard. Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe
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