Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010

An anonymous reader writes "Adobe Systems' Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers (PDF) in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applications, a security vendor predicted this week. 'Cybercriminals have long picked on Microsoft products due to their popularity. In 2010, we anticipate Adobe software, especially Acrobat Reader and Flash, will take the top spot,' security vendor McAfee said in its '2010 Threat Predictions' report. 'We have absolutely seen an increase in the number of attacks, around Reader in particular and also Flash Player to some extent,' CTO Kevin Lynch told reporters at the Adobe Max conference in October. 'We're working to decrease the amount of time between when we know about a problem and when we release a fix. That used to be a couple of months; now it's within two weeks for critical issues.'"

I already see this happening

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Sometimes when I go to a website, it will have Flash malware which forces me to download unwanted content and then plays it without my consent.

Damn you Youtube!!!

isn't Flash content in the cloud?

[alen]

i expect a fix in 5 minutes. everyone knows that anything delivered from the cloud is highly secure and easy to fix if problems arise

Oh, the irony!

[Locke2005]

"We predict that Acrobat Reader will be the top hacker target in 2010, and that is why we are distributing our report in a format that can only be viewed by using Acrobat Reader!"

Re:I already see this happening

[digitalunity]

Does anyone else see the irony that the white paper is in Adobe PDF format and most people will be reading about Adobe Reader vulnerabilities IN Adobe Reader?