Adobe seems to get more serious efforts to clog of many holes in its software. Yes, Adobe is known with the criticism and want to repair the poor security track record.
Back to April, if you remember of an automatic updater that giving Acrobat and Reader products the ability to handle the critical security issues immediately. Now, Adobe has turned their focus to “sandboxing”, a kind of security mechanism which implicates performing the rub up software in an isolated zone – the sandbox.
The further version of its free Reader PDF viewer for Windows would be supported by the utilization of sandboxing, announced by the San Jose-based company.
“With sandboxing, anyone who encounters a malicious PDF will find that a successful exploit is kept within the sandbox,” said Brad Arkin, Adobe’s director of security and privacy.
At the first time, the new feature called “Protected Mode” would just be utilized to sandbox “write calls”. However, the following update would also help to prevent utilize code which trying to copy susceptible information that came from the user’s machine.
“In the first release, everything that is involved in rendering a PDF has to happen within the sandbox.”
The company looks forward to have the next version of Reader already before the end of the year.
