How the Adobe hack could fuel next wave of cyberattacks

SEATTLE - Adobe has taken several steps to calm concerns among its corporate users about the loss of customer account data and critical source code to hackers. "There are no indications to date that attackers have leveraged the illegally accessed source code to harm Adobe customers," says Adobe's CSO, Brad Arkin. Concern is brewing that the bad guys seem certain to use knowledge of Acrobat source code to intensify already widespread attacks revolving around corrupted PDFs. "Having the source code to an application is like having the blueprints to a product," says George Tubin, senior security strategist at Trusteer, an IBM company, "Having access to it expedites the vulnerability identification process - leading to more weaknesses being identified and used for cybercrime." ColdFusion supports the new HTML5 standard being used for the new generation of mobile apps, and it is widely used in building websites, business apps and mobile apps for corporate use.

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