Adobe ships critical PDF Reader, Acrobat patch

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adobe has shipped a critical update to patch a code execution vulnerability affecting multiple versions of its Reader and Acrobat products. According to Adobe’s advisory, the flaw “could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.” If you have Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed on your machine, this update ...

Pandora Desktop Beta

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

We've always wanted to find a simple way to deliver Pandora as a desktop application -- it's probably been on our to do list longer than any single feature. Today we're dipping our toe into those waters for the first time with the release of a Beta version of Pandora ...

All clear for Flash Player: current version not vulnerable

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

The reported security hole in Flash Player can now be given the all clear. The general consensus is that users of the current version 9.0.124.0 are safe. For the first time ever Secunia, one of the most reliable sources of information about security issues, has even revoked its advisory about ...

New Adobe Flaw Being Used in Attacks

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

An unpatched bug in Adobe Systems' Flash Player software is being exploited by online criminals, Symantec reported Monday. Few details on the bug are available, but the flaw lies in the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player browser plugin, which is widely used by Internet surfers to view animated Web ...

Tracking down Firefox plug-ins

Monday, April 14th, 2008

My last posting was about upgrading the Adobe Flash Player, a Web browser plug-in. Adobe Systems just released a new version that fixes critical bugs in older versions, so everyone should update to the latest version. Adobe's Flash tester page displays the version of the Flash Player being used by your ...

ActiveX is least secure plug-in

Monday, April 14th, 2008

ActiveX controls made up most of all browser plug-in vulnerabilities in the second half of 2007, according to Symantec. The company has just released its semi-annual web security report and in it said that Microsoft's technology, primarily used to create add-ins for Internet Explorer, accounted for 79 percent of the 239 ...

Adobe Pushes Photoshop to 64 bits–for Windows Only

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop, will become a 64-bit application in the next major revision to the company's bundle of creative pro applications, Creative Suite 4. However, the 64-bit version will only be available to Windows users because of a change Apple made at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2007. The ...