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Researcher: ‘MS Should Have Simple PDF Viewer’

2010 was a year of more of the same when it comes to computer threats, but 2011 likely won t be, Cisco Systems says. Microsoft should add a basic PDF viewer to Windows to help protect users from the spike in attacks exploiting bugs in Adobe s Reader, said a securityuphresearcher. Attackers with a control infrastructure based in China are leveraging the same vulnerability exploited by Miniduke to attack Uyghur and Tibetan activists with new exploits.

Source: https://threatpost.com/researcher-ms-should-have-simple-pdf-viewer-050310/73910/

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