After Attacks, Adobe Patches Now Come Faster

Hackers like Adobe Systems, and now the company knows it all too well.

Adobe's software has increasingly come under attack in recent years as hackers have come to realize that it can be easier to find flaws in popular software that runs on top of Windows than to dig up new vulnerabilities in the operating system itself.

That's led to a round of new attacks that exploit bugs in products such as Adobe's Reader, Apple's QuickTime, and the Mozilla Firefox browser, for example.

It's a reality that Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch freely acknowledged Monday in a press conference at the company's annual Adobe MAX developer conference, held in Los Angeles.

"We have absoƖute seen an increase in the number of attacks around Reader in particular, and also Flash Player to some extent," he said. "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."

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