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There’s a 61% chance the Adobe software you run at work is out of date

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:03:28 +0000

I read this week that 61% of Adobe Reader installations in workplaces is out of date. That’s very bad. Very, very bad. Because Adobe Reader is trivially easy to exploit, and there’s more sensitive information to steal on corporate PCs

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Happy Patch Tuesday, September 2011

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:38:48 +0000

Microsoft has five updates and Adobe has two for us on this fine Patch Tuesday, in addition to a patch Mozilla pushed out for Firefox last week. Don’t get too complacent if you run something other than Windows. If you

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How to view questionable PDFs safely

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:16:01 +0000

I said Tuesday that it’s a bad idea to download and view PDF (Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader) documents from questionable sources, but I didn’t really elaborate on why, nor did I tell you how to view questionable PDFs safely. The reason

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More on tiny but potentially modern Linux distributions

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 03:15:45 +0000

I found a couple of interesting things on Freshmeat today.

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