Fiserv to Banks: Stay on Outdated Adobe Reader
Summary: Fiserv, a Fortune 500 processor serving more than 16,000 financial clients, posted a Feb. 16, 2010 notice telling credit unions not to upgrade Adobe Acrobat Reader past Version 8.1, citing potential compatibility issues with its Adobe-based products. ScanSafe reported that 80 percent of Web-based attacks from malicious and hacked sites in the last three months of 2009 targeted Adobe Reader vulnerabilities, and Fiserv later said the advisory reached fewer than three dozen people before it was removed.
Key Takeaway: A vendor told banks to stay on software from October 2007 while criminals were concentrating four out of five web-based attacks on that same application, and the notice was pulled only after it became public.
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