Big news this week as Adobe issued a security update on Tuesday that patched up 29 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat.  

According to a Computerworld.com article, most of these bugs, which affected the latest versions of both applications, were used to take remote control of personal computers. Affected versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat include 9.1.3 and earlier across the Windows, Mac OS and Linux platforms.

Now for the most part, Adobe had only one sure fire way to staunch previously exploited PDF vulnerabilities: disable JavaScript.  Well after the fourth exploit this year, Adobe is doing something about it. The PDF innovators are tightening up their applications with a few defensive tweaks.