Adobe to be targeted more in 2010 than Microsoft
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Which kind of dulls the excitement of the "we're number one" chants over at Adobe, I'd imagine. According to security experts at McAfee, vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Flash will be the top electronic threats of 2010, surpassing issues with Microsoft Office. This, of course, is simply an indication of a wider trend, that of hackers targeting applications instead of operating systems. And with Adobe Reader and Flash being the top two most widely deployed applications worldwide, attacking them at least makes sense. McAfee says we will also see threats against social networking sites and HTML 5 in 2010. It's only a matter of time before we're required to take off our shoes and walk through a metal detector before we can use a browser.