Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Attackers compromised an Adobe server and hijacked a code-signing certificate -- a mechanism that is supposed to validate that computer ...

Adobe is in the process of revoking certain digital certificates after discovering two malicious utilities signed by valid Adobe certs. Adobe's senior director of security Brad Arkin, wrote in a blog ...

“We recently received two malicious utilities that appeared to be digitally signed using a valid Adobe code signing certificate,” said Brad Arkin, senior director of product security and privacy at ...

Adobe’s revocation of a code-signing certificate that had been used by attackers to sign several malicious utilities sparked concerns in the security community about widespread malware attacks using ...

Criminals have broken into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them being legitimate code. As a result of the breach, the company will revoke ...

Adobe today announced it has been subject to a significant security breach, including a compromised build server resulting in at least one valid Adobe code signing certificate being used to sign ...

The news yesterday that Adobe had been compromised and that the attackers were able to get valid Adobe signatures on a pair of malware utilities is one of the more worrisome and troubling stories in ...

Hackers have breached Adobe's code-signing system allowing them to spread their malware under the guise of official Adobe software. Adobe security chief Brad Arkin says the attack on one of its ...

Specifically, the Adobe security update repaired critical flaws in Adobe Reader 10.1 and earlier versions for Windows and Mac OS X, as well as Adobe Reader 9.4.2 and earlier versions for UNIX and ...

Both utilities are believed to come from the same source, according to a blog posted by Brad Arkin of the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team, which suggests the certificates might have been used ...

A backdoor trojan that targets Windows users is employing a fake Adobe certificate to remain undetected, researchers have found. The malicious file carries an Adobe icon and is named Word13.exe. Once ...