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Adobe: Security Breach Critical: Digital Certificate Misuse

Calendar Oct 02, 2012 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Hackers have broken into an internal server at Adobe to compromise a digital certificate that allowed them to create at least two files that appear to be legitimately signed by the software maker, but actually contain malware. Adobe expects to revoke the compromised certificate later this week.

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