Adobe's Acrobat and Acrobat Reader packages are currently under attack from a JavaScript-based exploit, similar to one which afflicted the software back in June.

Security researchers found 134 vulnerabilities in the way apps such as Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word handle JavaScript.

Adobe Acrobat is a software suite used for creating, viewing, and editing PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. It is developed and maintained by Adobe Systems and is available for Windows and ...

The issue is JavaScript and the way that Acrobat and Flash (the plug-in for Flash and Flash Player) handle it. They just do not do so very well at all. Because of this little problem arbitrary ...