Adobe will release an emergency patch, expected within two weeks, to plug a security flaw in Adobe Reader, the latest in a series of the program’s recent vulnerabilities. The problem is, this flaw was found through a presentation at the Black Hat conference last week, and not by Adobe’s security team.
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