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Angry Birds is now available on Facebook. It's got some unique social features, but it's mostly the same game you've played on your phone, tablet, in Chrome and so on. One remarkable thing about Rovio is that it managed to make the game look, sound and feel the same on every platform and device it'... |
13 February 2012
18:41 GMT |
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About a year after sandboxing Flash Player in Google Chrome, Adobe takes the steps towards bringing the same technology to Mozilla Firefox. Indeed, they released a public beta for Flash Player sandbox, also known as “Flash Player Protected Mode”, designed entirely for Mozilla’s web browser. It shou... |
7 February 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Google has been working on this for years now, but it has finally enabled the “Click-to-play” option for plugins by default in the very latest Chrome 18 releases. The feature allows users to block plugins, like Flash Player, from loading when a site requires them, until they explicitly allow it to b... |
1 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Adobe rolled out a new beta for Flash Player and AIR products. This is the fifth and last beta before making available the final release.
Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197 and AIR 3.2.0.1830 do not usher new features, but instead concentrate on bug fixing and improving performance and stability as well as device compa... |
1 February 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Adobe released a new beta for both Flash Player 11.2 and AIR Runtime 3.2. Besides bug fixing and smoothing out the edges, specific to beta development, the new builds also feature new stuff.
When possible, content using direct mode for Flash Player or “renderMode=direct” for AIR, Stage3D and StageVideo i... |
20 January 2012
04:09 GMT |
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Adobe has just made available a new version of its Flash Player for Android, packing it with a series of bug fixes specifically aimed at the latest version of the OS, Ice Cream Sandwich. The release notes found on Adobe’s website say that this update fixes the following issue: “Video showing up as '... |
17 January 2012
02:04 GMT |
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Adobe released today the third beta for their Flash Player, incrementing the build number to 11.2.202.160.
There aren’t too many details about this release, but the one thing that’s for sure is that this beta provides access to the Flash Player 11.2 runtime for all supported desktop environments (Windows... |
22 December 2011
10:14 GMT |
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Adobe has just released a new version of its Flash Player for Android, adding support for the latest flavor of the platform, Ice Cream Sandwich, currently available on the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung.
In addition to providing support for Android 4 smartphones, the new Flash Player iteration also includes a series of ... |
16 December 2011
01:42 GMT |
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The US. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found two critical vulnerabilities in the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the use of a maliciously crafted SWF file. Accordi... |
9 December 2011
10:18 GMT |
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When made available for purchase, the Galaxy Nexus featured no Adobe Flash Player, which proved to be a deal breaker for many users, but it seems that things will turn out for the better soon.
As soon as next month, Adobe will provide an update for its Flash Player to offer support for Samsung’s new Galaxy N... |
29 November 2011
02:55 GMT |
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In addition to making the BlackBerry PlayBook cheaper for the holiday season and bringing it for free to customers in the Enterprise area, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is also delivering a new software for the device. The handset vendor has just started to roll-out the new Tablet OS v1.0.8.4985 to ... |
24 November 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Before the end of the ongoing year, Adobe will push out a new flavor of Flash Player for devices running under Google's Android operating system, so as to deliver the software to the new Ice Cream Sandwich platform release as well.
Android 4.0 does not come with Flash right from the start, but will get a tast... |
21 November 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Adobe officials are becoming vocal on the discontinuation of Flash for mobile platforms with one lead developer admitting that it was all Apple’s fault. He also admits that HTML5 is proving to be the right choice for mobile web.Mike Chambers, lead product manager for Flash, has made a blog entry which reveals t... |
14 November 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Soon after it announced that it planned on killing off the development of Flash Player for mobile devices, Adobe made available for download a new flavor of the software for devices that run under Google's Android operating system, as well as for the BlackBerry PlayBook.
The Flash Player is dead, make no mist... |
11 November 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Unlike the previous versions of Flash and AIR, which were highly anticipated for introducing cinematic 2D and 3D hardware accelerated graphics of Stage 3D, the current releases focus mostly on plugging security holes and fixing bugs.
Security-wise, Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 takes care of critical vulnerabilitie... |
11 November 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Yesterday, Adobe announced plans to put an end to the development of Flash Player for mobile devices, which was seen as a blow to many, but it seems that Flash developers who build apps targeting RIM's devices have nothing to fear of, at least for the time being.
Research In Motion remains committed to the pl... |
10 November 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Apparently, the Flash Player is indeed a lost cause on the mobile space, and Adobe is aware of that, thus choosing to put an end to its development and focus on other technologies for the future.
Today, the company went official with plans to kill off Flash on mobile browsers, making room for HTML5 to become the ki... |
9 November 2011
09:45 GMT |
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People close to Adobe say the company’s development plans for the future do no include Flash for mobile platforms. Instead, the company behind Photoshop will be increasing their investments in HTML5, just like Steve Jobs predicted in April, 2010.The announcement was revealed to ZDNet, with Adobe reportedly sayi... |
9 November 2011
08:19 GMT |
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In a move that might come as a big surprise to many, since we're all becoming increasingly mobile these days, Adobe might halt the development of its Flash platform for mobile devices, at least this is what recent reports suggest.
According to ZDNet, Adobe is stopping the development of Flash Player for brows... |
9 November 2011
03:22 GMT |
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Three weeks after Adobe Flash Player 11 rolled out, the company releases the first beta for their cross-platform, browser-based application. The release is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Flash Player 11.2.202.18 brings to the table fully multi-threaded video decoding, which ... |
27 October 2011
05:09 GMT |
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Adobe has settled a dispute with a security researcher concerning the number of vulnerabilities patched in the latest version of Flash Player.Following the release of Flash Player 10.3.183.5 last week, Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy disputed Adobe's vulnerability count.Ormady claimed that he alone submit... |
18 August 2011
13:44 GMT |
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Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy claims the "several improvements" he is credited for in the latest Flash Player security bulletin are actually 400 vulnerabilities."Adobe patched around 400 unique vulnerabilities I had sent them in APSB11-21 as part of an ongoing security audit. Not a typo," the researcher wrot... |
10 August 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Adobe has released a new version of Flash Player which addresses many critical security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on systems.The newly released Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.5 addresses thirteen buffer overflow, memory corruption and integer overflow vulnerabilities. All of them ca... |
10 August 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser in order to update the bundled Flash Player plug-in with vulnerability patches."The Chrome Beta and Stable channels have been updated to 13.0.782.112 which includes an updated version of Flash Player," Google announced yesterday.Both Adobe and the Google Chrome ... |
9 August 2011
12:38 GMT |
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A new version of Adobe's Flash Player 10.3 is now available for download for devices running under Google's Android mobile operating system, namely 10.3.185.25, which follows the availability of a security update for the software earlier this month.
Apparently, Adobe included a series of compatibility ... |
29 June 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Adobe has patched a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that was being actively exploited in the wild to infect users with malware.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2011-2110, was addressed in the newly released Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.26 for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris.Flash Player for Android ha... |
15 June 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Adobe has released a new update for Flash Player in order to address a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild."This universal cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2011-2107) could be used to take actions on a user's behalf on any website or webmail provider, if t... |
6 June 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Adobe Flash Player 10.3 was recently launched, bringing some enhanced privacy controls, better voice chat technology and plenty of other improvements. For some Internet Explorer 9 users, it also brought a nasty bug. The bug is widespread enough that Adobe felt the need to write about it and offer affected users some ... |
18 May 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Adobe has released a security update for Flash Player in order to address an arbitrary code execution vulnerability actively exploited in the wild since last week.The critical vulnerability was confirmed by Adobe on April 11, after having been spotted in targeted email attacks by security reasearchers.The rogue email... |
16 April 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Google has released a new stable update for Chrome to address several vulnerabilities in the browser itself, as well as in the bundled Flash Player plug-in.The new Chrome 10.0.648.205 version fixes three critical flaws, which is a bit unusual because critical bugs are a relatively rare occurrence in Google's bro... |
15 April 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Adobe plans to release a security patch for Flash Player tomorrow and one for Adobe Reader and Acrobat two weeks from now in order to address a critical vulnerability actively exploited in the wild.The security issue was discovered earlier this month in targeted email attacks that distributed Word documents rigged wi... |
14 April 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Adobe warns that Flash Player is affected by a new 0-day critical vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild to compromise computers.The flaw affects Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris, as well as Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier for Android.The authplay.dll Fl... |
12 April 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Adobe has released a new version of Flash Player in order to address a critical vulnerability actively exploited in the wild since the beginning of last week.Last Monday, Adobe issued a security advisory warning users of attacks targeting a previously unknown vulnerability in Flash Player.The attacks used maliciously... |
22 March 2011
04:18 GMT |
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Google has released two more updates for the Chrome stable channel last week in order to patch the bundled Flash Player plug-in and to blacklist several SSL certificates.These new releases raise the number of Chrome stable security updates pushed in a single month to an unprecedented five.At the beginning of March Go... |
21 March 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Adobe Labs announced yesterday, February 8th, the final and stable version of the highly anticipated Flash Player 10.2 plugin, for Linux, Windows and Macintosh systems. The new release brings Stage Video and full hardware accelerated video pipeline for amazing video playback.As we've said above, Adobe Flash Play... |
9 February 2011
10:37 GMT |
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Flash Player 10.2 has been released. The latest update to the very popular platform focuses on video, with hardware acceleration, HD-playback and multi-monitor viewing taking center stage. Flash Player 10.2 is available on all major desktop platforms today as well as bundled with the latest Google Chrome updates."We&... |
9 February 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Google has released the beta version of Google Chrome 9 for early adopters, whose Windows version features a sandboxed Flash Player plugin.The plan to add Flash Player under Chrome's sandbox was announced back in March and the effort began by creating a Flash plugin version ships with the browser by default.Sinc... |
16 December 2010
11:55 GMT |
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Google has released new dev and canary builds of its Chrome browser, which contain a sandboxed Flash Player version developed in collaboration with Adobe. In software development, sandboxing refers to the practice of isolating processes and strictly controlling their interaction with the operating system. This kind... |
2 December 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Reports emerged last month saying Apple was killing one technology after another with its new MacBook Air computers, among which Flash, and Java were mentioned. Now we may have found the main reason why Apple does not pre-install Adobe’s Flash Player plugin on new Macs - battery life.In an official statement is... |
5 November 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1.102.64, a security update that fixes eighteen vulnerabilities, including one actively exploited in the wild since last week.In total, fourteen critical memory corruption flaws, which could lead to arbitrary code execution, have been addressed in the newly released version, one of ... |
5 November 2010
03:24 GMT |
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Adobe has accelerated the previously announced Flash Player patch schedule and the fix for an actively exploited critical vulnerability is expected to land tomorrow.Last Thursday, independent security researchers reported that a new Flash Player zero-day flaw might be actively exploited in attacks, which infect users... |
3 November 2010
03:18 GMT |
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Adobe has confirmed that a new critical vulnerability affects Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat, and plans to release patches in the second and third week of November, respectively.Rumors of the zero-day vulnerability emerged earlier today, with researcher Mila Parkour revealing some details about an attack that... |
28 October 2010
10:54 GMT |
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According to the preliminary findings of some security researchers, a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player might be exploited in the wild to infect users with a trojan.The alert comes from independent security researcher Mila Parkour, who maintains the Contagio Malware Dump blog. Ms. Parkour was also cred... |
28 October 2010
04:16 GMT |
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Apple has decided to stop bundling Flash Player in new Macs and will pass the update responsibility onto its users, who are now advised to obtain the application's latest versions from Adobe.Flash Player has shipped with Macs for the past decade, until a few days ago, when people who tried out the newly released... |
23 October 2010
07:59 GMT |
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Adobe has announced that a new batch of Flash Player security updates are expected to land on Monday, September 20, and will include a fix for an actively exploited critical vulnerability.At the beginning of the week, the company revealed that a new arbitrary code execution has been discovered in Flash Player 10.1.82... |
18 September 2010
07:25 GMT |
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Google has released a new version of Chrome, which fixes a Flash Player vulnerability currently exploited in the wild, even though an official patch from Adobe is not expected until Monday.Google Chrome 6.0.472.62 has been pushed to the Stable and Beta channels for Windows, Linux and Mac, as well as the Beta channel ... |
18 September 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Adobe Systems Inc. have released a preview release of their Flash Player for Mac OS X. Dubbed "Square" the plugin enables native 64-bit support on supported hardware, but is also available for 32-bit systems.Windows and Linux versions are, of course, readily downloadable as well.In addition to bringing 64-bit support... |
17 September 2010
05:25 GMT |
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Adobe warns that a critical and previously undisclosed vulnerability in Flash Player is actively being exploited in the wild to compromise computers."A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.92.10 for Andr... |
14 September 2010
03:18 GMT |
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The latest patched version of Flash Player is vulnerable to a type of attack known as remote binary planting or DLL preloading.According to information disclosed by an outfit called the YGN Ethical Hacker Group, attackers can force Flash Player to execute arbitrary code by placing a rogue file named dwmapi.dll on the... |
10 September 2010
14:36 GMT |
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Google has released an update to the Chrome stable channel. Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 is a minor patch which updates the bundled Adobe Flash Player plugin to the latest version. At the same time, the first stable build of Google Chrome 6 is getting closer. “Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 has been released to the Sta... |
11 August 2010
08:47 GMT |
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