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I find the fact that Adobe got hacked by a pdf vulnerability kinda funny.

• sp332 17y ago
  Specifically, a 0-day exploit in the Adobe Reader software which Adobe knew about and refused to fix for months (since it would break their upgrade schedule).
  • lt 17y ago
    They're denying it though, blaming it on IE only: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/01/no_evidence_to_suggest_adobe_t.html http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/01/no_evidence_to_...
    • abscondment 17y ago
      It's not just them denying it, but McAffee as well: http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/operation-“aurora”-hit-google-others/ http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/operation-“aurora”-hit-google-o...
    • eli 17y ago
      Considering the original report was unsourced, I'm inclined to believe them
• gcb 17y ago
  What about inside job? most companies have offices in india, china. And even risking a moral point here, all companies have chinese employees. Hell, when I worked for a shady company here [regret] most employees used to sell the email database. what about the oposite? use employees to insert vulnerabilities instead of selling data. Will anyone run `cvs blame` on the IE4 source code?
  • fauigerzigerk 17y ago
    And all companies have employees who like money. Not that I have studied this in any detail, but my recollection of the cold war is that most spies turned out to be corrupt US (or UK, etc) nationals, not russian employees.
    • gcb 17y ago
      true. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/18/1623248/Google-Investigating-Chinese-Employees?art_pos=13 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/18/1623248/Google-Inves... here's the follow up on that line of thought.