In PDF news, Adobe has updated both their Reader and Acrobat applications to version 8.1.2.

According to the Adobe site, this update patch “includes several important security fixes, among them a few of critical severity that could be remotely exploitable�. What’s behind the “critical severity� hasn’t yet been publicly announced or confirmed by Adobe.

However, the story around this update isn’t the bug itself. The main concern is the lack of information about the critical threat.