It is understood that Adobe’s CTO acknowledged the recent marked increase in attacks against Adobe and said that he would focus on improving software security. Adobe contains multiple functional components, including the Reader and Flash Player which is found to be flawed up to two components.
Typically, the Microsoft family of products has been the main target of hackers due to high market share. But with the release of the new operating system, Windows 7, Microsoft’s security products has increased in a short time, hackers had to prey on other products.
Moreover, McAfee experts also predict hot popularity of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook plug-in feature provides the convenience for the hackers. May occur in the future in particular the attacks against the social networking Web site, the user should pay attention to the protection of private information.
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