Adobe Builds On Its Sandboxing Protections As Part Of A Series Of Moves To Improve Security

snoopy · Oct 18, 2012

Adobe builds on its sandboxing protections as part of a series of moves to improve security
Oct 17, 2012 | 05:32 PM | Dark Reading
By Brian Prince, Contributing Writer

Adobe Systems made a number of moves to improve security in Adobe Reader and Acrobat with new releases of the applications today.

Building off of the sandboxing protections the company first introduced into its products in 2010, Adobe has taken steps to add another layer of defense to the sandbox in the latest versions of Reader and Acrobat. In the case of Adobe Reader XI, the company has added data theft prevention capabilities by restricting read-only activities to prevent attackers from reading sensitive information on the user's computer. The company also has implemented a separate desktop and WinStation in both Reader and Acrobat to block screen-scraping attacks.

"This mode effectively introduces a new Protected View in Adobe Reader and enhances the Protected View implementation in Adobe Acrobat even further," explains Priyank Choudhury, a security researcher with Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET), in reference to the separate desktop and WinStation. "Protected View behaves identically for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, whether viewing PDF files in the standalone product or in the browser."
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