As promised, Adobe, yesterday released the long-awaited security update to its popular applications like Adobe Acrobat and Reader 9.3.1. Meanwhile, users who are still using version 8, will update the version 8.2.1 to fix security problems. One sees vulnerabilities, allowing a PDF file with malicious code would allow a hacker to take complete control of your computer.

With respect to Flash Player, the update was released last week, but if you have not done the upgrade, now is good time to do it, the latest version is 10.0.45.2. The problem for those who use Mac OS X, is that the Flash player does not always respect the setting that causes the system to remind us of updates, so Adobe recommends that you do soon.

To get an idea of the danger we run Mac users not to upgrade to Adobe software, a recently performed study shows that the percentage of security breaches resulting PDF documents increased from 56% in the first months of 2009, to 80% during the last 3 months last year. So we might as well keep applications from Adobe and our whole system in general, updated to the latest versions of the updates.

Vía Adobe, TUAW, ComputerWorld