Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009 More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won't patch until Thursday, a Danish security company said today.According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Adobe is warning of a critical security vulnerability in its current Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for all platforms are also affected. The vulnerability is already being actively exploited two ways, via crafted PDF documents and manipulated web sites (drive-by downloads). It's reported ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Researchers at Trend Micro are reporting that a new variant of the Koobface worm is spreading on Facebook.Koobface first appeared in 2008, with separate variants striking members of Facebook and MySpace.com. Now the Koobface worm is back again, with an eye toward stealing cookies for other social networking sites.According to ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008 The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox version 3.0.4 to close nine security holes. The developers rated four of the holes as critical because they allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on the victim's system. One of the critical holes is a classical buffer overflow that can be triggered via specially ...
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