When Adobe last week issued an advisory about a dangerous zero-day attack based on an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability that was being exploited in the wild to try and seize control of both PCs and Macs, it credited Lockheed Martin for sounding the alarm about it.
It’s not the first time Lockheed Martin has been known to have come under cyberattack, as happened in May in connection with the RSA SecurID-related advanced persistent threat as we’ve learned this year. But this week, Lockheed Martin — perhaps not unlike a modern-day version of Paul Revere — has done a huge public good in coming forward with reliable information. Once again, U.S. defense contractors are being targeted.
via Security roundup: Lockheed Martin sounds alarm on Adobe Reader zero-day; Microsoft patchfest coming.
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