According to the company, Adobe Acrobat 9 passwords are a hundred times easier to crack than the ones in Acrobat 8 : "ElcomSoft has discovered that the new PDF protection system implemented in ...

Adobe has released a security update which resolves two critical vulnerabilities uncovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader software.

A cybersecurity researcher is urging users to upgrade Adobe Acrobat Reader after a fix was released yesterday for a remote code execution zero-day with a public in-the-wild proof-of-concept exploit.

By the end of 2009, malicious Adobe Reader and Acrobat documents were to blame for 80 percent for security exploits, according to security firm ScanSafe.

To password protect a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader, you'll need the paid Pro version, which starts at $14.99 a month.

If you use Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDFs, or Adobe Acrobat to create them, then it's time to update. Adobe yesterday (Nov. 3) released new versions of both, for Mac and PC alike, to fix ...