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Flash Player 10.1 Gets Hardware Acceleration Through ATI Stream Technology

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just revealed that the recently-announced Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta will be supported by platforms powered by Vision Technology from AMD. The latest installment of Adobe's Flash Player takes advantage of the benefits and features that are enabled through...

17 November 2009
02:08 GMT

RIM Joins Adobe's Open Screen Project

Adobe Systems Incorporated and Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion have announced today at the worldwide developer conference Adobe MAX that the handset vendor has joined forces with the Open Screen Project and that it will work together with Adobe to bring Adobe Flash Player to BlackBerry smartphones. T...

5 October 2009
06:04 GMT

Adobe and NVIDIA to Enable Flash Player 10.1 on Netbooks and Mobile Devices

Adobe and NVIDIA have jointly announced today that they are both working on enabling a better Web experience on devices such as netbooks, smartphones and smartbooks, built with the help of NVIDIA's graphics processing units. The two companies have been working together, as part of the Open Screen Project to prov...

5 October 2009
03:34 GMT

Adobe Delivers Full Flash Player to Mobile Phones

As promised a few months ago, Adobe Systems Incorporated has launched today the Adobe Flash Player for mobile phones. The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 offers handset owners the possibility to view on their devices content created with the Adobe Flash Platform no matter where they are, the company stated. The browser-based...

5 October 2009
02:26 GMT

Half of Firefox Users Had a Vulnerable Flash Version Installed

Mozilla has analyzed the traffic on its new page that instructs Firefox users to upgrade their Adobe Flash Player plug-in and announced that around half of them were running an insecure version. It was also revealed that an estimated 30% of those users chose to hit the update link. On September 4, a few days before ...

17 September 2009
04:50 GMT

Firefox Will Start Warning of Outdated Flash Versions

Mozilla will be rolling out a new feature in the upcoming Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 versions that is geared towards decreasing the number of vulnerable Adobe Flash Player installations. According to Firefox developers, this is only the first step of an implementation that will eventually automatically update all the p...

7 September 2009
05:29 GMT

Adobe's Failure to Update Vulnerable Software

Three weeks ago, Adobe Inc. was informed of a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in the wild. Attackers were embedding malformed Flash streams into PDF documents to execute arbitrary code on hosts. After one week, Adobe launched critical security updates to its Flash Player and Acrobat Reader software. After t...

21 August 2009
05:21 GMT

Important Updates Released for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR

Adobe has shipped the much-awaited updates for its Flash Player and AIR products that fix a considerable number of critical vulnerabilities, some of which are actively being exploited in the wild. Patches for Adobe Reader and Acrobat are also scheduled for release today. This past month has not been an easy one for ...

31 July 2009
06:39 GMT

Download Updated Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR

Adobe Systems has just updated some of its products, and Mac users out there can now download the new flavors of Adobe Flash Player, which reached version 10.0.32.18, and Adobe AIR, which is now at version 1.5.2. The Adobe Flash Player, in case you didn't know already, enables users to view rich web content, inc...

31 July 2009
02:58 GMT

Adobe Flash Player Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Adobe has confirmed a critical vulnerability affecting the latest version of its Flash Player product, after reports of it being exploited in the wild surfaced. The zero-day flaw can be exploited by tricking users into viewing a maliciously crafted .swf file or opening PDF documents with malicious Flash streams embed...

23 July 2009
05:54 GMT

Flash Player Available Now on YouTube's Mobile Interface

Mobile phone owners have been able to access videos on YouTube for quite a while now, as the site offered its own mobile interface for this type of users, and also had a mobile application to view the files, only that most of the times they would find themselves reach a dead end. Basically, mobile phone users willi...

16 March 2009
06:47 GMT

Revamped Koobface Worm in Circulation

Researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro are warning against a new variant of the infamous Koobface worm that is targeting social networking users. While developing the new version, the worm writers have paid a lot of attention to details in an attempt to make their scheme as believable as possible. Koobface is...

2 March 2009
05:40 GMT

Finally, Adobe Releases 64-bit Flash Player for Linux

Today is a historical day for Linux users, as Adobe has finally decided to listen to them and released a 64-bit version of its Flash Player. Until today, 64-bit Linux users had to install the 32-bit version of the Flash Player, which was forced to work with the help of the NSPlugin wrapper package and the 32-bit libr...

17 November 2008
13:41 GMT

AVG Tags Adobe Flash Player as Malware

Users of the popular AVG antivirus product reported on the company's support forum that an Adobe flash component had been detected as a generic password stealing Trojan. This was caused by a faulty definition file that was pushed to users on Friday and followed a similar incident that occurred earlier this week,...

15 November 2008
06:18 GMT

Adobe Fixes Clickjacking and Clipboard Hijacking Vulnerabilities

Adobe has released Flash Player 10, an update which fixes several security problems including clipboard poisoning and the UI redressing attack that hijacks computer webcams and microphones. Other security improvements include prevention of cross-domain privilege escalation attacks, port-scanning and unauthorized down...

17 October 2008
05:31 GMT

Web Users at Risk of Being Spied Through Their Own Webcams and Microphones

Adobe has released an advisory that describes the Flash Player vulnerability, which previously prompted security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen to halt the disclosure of technical details regarding clickjacking attacks. According to the advisory, by using clickjacking techniques, an attacker can gain...

8 October 2008
11:03 GMT

Adobe Flash Player for iPhone Awaiting Apple's Approval

Adobe officials are cited as saying that a Flash Player application for Apple's iPhone is now awaiting the company's approval for download through the App Store. Speaking at the Flash On The Beach (FOTB) conference in Brighton, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems, Paul Betlem, stated that an iPhone...

1 October 2008
05:51 GMT

Adobe Searches for Solutions in the Clipboard Attack Case

We have previously reported on a malware threat disguised into Flash banners appearing uncompromisingly on Newsweek, Digg and MSNBC websites. Adobe, the owner of the Flash technology, made a brief announcement according to which the company was acquainted with the problem and was trying to find a suitable solution fo...

20 August 2008
08:57 GMT

Flash Player 10 "Astro" Got out of The Adobe Labs

Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta, codename "Astro", was launched with a couple of nice features backing it up. Although it is available in many languages, the installers are only in English at this moment. Rich media content and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) will look and act much better from this moment on. Ah, I almo...

15 May 2008
04:46 GMT

Adobe Launches Astro Flash Player 10

A public beta Adobe Flash Player 10, codenamed Astro, was officially rolled out today, bringing a couple of new capabilities besides the ones that have already been included in previous releases. Just like the older versions of Adobe Flash Player, Astro is available for free and can be used on most platforms that cur...

15 May 2008
03:15 GMT

A Dangerous Triangle: Opera Browser - Adobe Flash Player - Apple Mac OS X

So, are you one of those proud Apple customers and are you currently using Mac OS X? Oh, and have you also downloaded Opera Browser to surf the web? Hey, wait a sec, is that Adobe Flash Player installed on your system? Oh my God, you're vulnerable pal! You should really update your applications! A new vulnerabi...

19 December 2007
04:51 GMT

Windows Media Player in HTML

Multimedia content can be rendered directly from HTML pages in modern web browsers. The multimedia content inclusion in web pages can be made through different coding methods. The simplest way to add images, music, videos or any other media files is by using the object HTML element. It permits the insertion of apple...

6 December 2007
18:50 GMT

Adobe Presents Its Special Christmas Gift For YouTube And Hulu

Adobe has officially rolled out Flash Player 9 with H.264 video support, "the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities," as the San Jose-based company explained. Obviously, this is probably the best Christmas gift YouTube, MySpace,...

4 December 2007
14:56 GMT

The Mobile YouTube Gets Adobe Support

Adobe recently rolled out Flash Lite 3, a mobile technology which enhances the power of the mobile devices to display videos and other content based on the flash format. Adobe sustains there are no less than 300 million flash-compatible devices so I think it is quite important to have a powerful technology able to wo...

1 October 2007
03:06 GMT

Adobe Brings Better Quality for The YouTube Clips

Adobe finally released a new version of Flash Player that also includes H.264 support, the same standard used by the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD devices. If you didn't know, Adobe's Flash Player represents the main technology for many Internet services and YouTube is just one of them. Although it's currently on...

21 August 2007
15:51 GMT

Wii Exploited Through Adobe Flash Bug

A surprising piece of news up on PCWorld.com says something about a vulnerability coming from the Adobe Flash that could affect your Wii while browsing the Internet with Opera. Apparently, some Wii users have experienced freezing because of this exploit and it's not just the Wii getting kicked in the butt by thi...

24 July 2007
06:41 GMT

Samsung Rolls Out the YP-U3 Flash Player

Samsung entered the DAP (Digital Audio Player) market back in 2005 by releasing the YP-U1. They're now unveiling their third incarnation of their miniDAP.The new Samsung U3 has what the U2 was definitely longing for: a retracting USB port. Now, all Samsung has to do is work for a more competitive U4 that should ...

8 May 2007
09:45 GMT

1 GB Creative Zen Stone for $39,99: "That Doesn't Impress Me Much!"

Here's another desperate move that intends to take Apple by surprise. Creative just released its latest solution to handling the iPod Shuffle issue: the Zen Stone. I'm pretty sure you read all the rumors about the under $50 Creative's Zen Stone imminent launch.Well, watch out! Creative throws the Zen S...

3 May 2007
16:46 GMT

Cry Me Some Flash Content On The iRiver Clix 2

Lookie here! Clix 2! Iriver, the maker of, err, iRiver, now wants to push the new Clix 2. It's actually out on the market. The device comes with the same built-in FM tuner, voice recorder and supports MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG music files, as well as MPEG-4 "simple profile" QVGA video. The upgrade comes with a slee...

11 April 2007
10:35 GMT


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