Adobe Blocks PDF Exploit with Microsoft's Help2010-09-13 14:55 by DanielaTags: Microsoft, Adobe, PDF
Microsoft last Friday urged Windows users to block ongoing attacks against Adobe's popular PDF viewer by deploying one of Microsoft's enterprise tools. Adobe echoed Microsoft's advice , saying the Enhanced Migration Experience Toolkit (EMET) would stymie attacks targeting Reader and Acrobat. Called "scary" and "clever," the in-the-wild exploit went public last week when security researcher Mila Parkour reported it to Adobe after analyzing a rogue PDF document attached to spam. Adobe first warned users Wednesday of the threat, but at the time gave users no advice on how to protect themselves until a patch was ready. "The good news is that if you have EMET enabled ... it blocks this exploit," said Fermin Serna and Andrew Roths, two engineers with the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in an entry on the group's blog. Read more -here-
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Tristan - 2010-09-13 16:54
While I think the EMET is a good idea, it's not something the average Joe is going to use or know about.
BTW: It's "Mitigation", not "Migration". This mistake will make a certain percentage of average people to give up in frustration when they can't find the wrongly-named toolkit.
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