Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Monday, April 11th, 2011

A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier for Chrome users) for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for Android, and the Authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier ...

Update Adobe Flash Now!

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-1297) could cause a crash and potentially allow an ...

Fox Sports Web Site Compromised

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has detected that the Fox Sports site has been compromised and injected with malicious code. Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It specializes in the latest sports news and world sports updates. Fox Sports has an Alexa ranking of 330.Our research ...

Koobface Now Using Christmas Theme

Monday, November 30th, 2009

The Koobface Web site offers a video posted by 'SantA'. The usual ruse of requiring a codec to watch the video is used, to encourage the user to install and run a file called setup.exe (SHA1:a2046fc88ab82abec89e150b915ab4b332af924a). This file is currently detected by 16 out of 41 antivirus products according to ...

New Flash Attack Has No Real ‘Fix’

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Researchers have discovered a new attack that exploits the way browsers operate with Adobe Flash -- and there's no simple patch for it.The attack can occur on Websites that accept user-generated content -- anything from Webmail to social networking sites. An attacker basically takes advantage of the fact that a ...