2009 hasn’t been a good year for anyone—especially for Adobe.
Reader and Acrobat users can attest to this. Adobe struggled with a number of security risks in 2009, and just barely closed out the year with an update which included new security improvements and fixes for 29 vulnerabilities, and another patch which was released just after the New Year.
F-Secure, a global company specializing in online software services for securing digital content, has crunched the numbers and has announced the results: Adobe Reader is the most exploited application of 2009, ousting Microsoft Word from the top spot.