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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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Mac users looking to get H.264 hardware acceleration out of Flash Player are no longer required to download the Adobe Labs Flash Player Gala Beta edition, the San Jose, California-based software vendor has revealed in an update.According to the release notes for Flash Player 10.1.82.76, Adobe has included the h... |
11 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Adobe is planning to ship an important security update for its Reader and Acrobat products tomorrow. The update will address a critical remote code execution vulnerability disclosed earlier this month, as well as other security issues.In a Security Advisory released at the end of last week, Adobe explains that the ba... |
28 June 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Apple is being slammed over failing to include the most recent version of Flash with the latest Snow Leopard security update, with Brad Arkin, Adobe's director of security and privacy, reportedly writing in a message on Twitter, “10.6.4 update for Mac OS X includes Flash Player, but not the latest version.... |
17 June 2010
08:53 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is set to deliver to the market a new mobile operating system before the end of the ongoing year, namely Windows Phone 7, but it seems that not all things will be set in place right at launch. One feature that would miss from the platform in the beginning would be Adobe's ... |
16 June 2010
08:55 GMT |
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Intego, the Mac-specialized security firm, has issued a note looking at Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1, which delivers not only playback improvements, but also some security fixes. One particularly noteworthy aspect regarding the update is that G3-based Mac users are looking at their last Flash Player update. Earli... |
14 June 2010
06:43 GMT |
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Adobe Systems Inc seems pretty confident that its Flash Player will gain a lot of traction on the smartphone market. According to the company, the solution is expected to be present on a number of more than 250 million smartphones by the end of 2012. Moreover, the Flash Player should be supported by more than 53 per... |
11 June 2010
08:37 GMT |
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After months of betas and release candidates, the final bits of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 (r53) are here. Flash Player 10.1 is much more than a minor update, it comes with a broad set of new features and capabilities. Chief among these is support for hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D graphics and for video playba... |
11 June 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Adobe has confirmed the availability of Flash Player 10.1 for Mac OS X. The company has also said that Flash Player 10.1 is on its way to Android devices, and that Adobe AIR 2 runtime is now available for download for devs looking to deploy applications built for AIR 2 on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Talking about t... |
11 June 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Adobe is rushing to fix an actively exploited Flash Player and Adobe Reader vulnerability, disclosed as a 0-day recently. A Flash Player security update is scheduled to ship on Thursday, while the scheduled update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat has been accelerated and is expected to land on June 29.
Last Friday, Adob... |
8 June 2010
11:54 GMT |
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Adobe warns users that an unpatched vulnerability affecting Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat is actively being exploited in the wild. The critical flaw allows attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability affects the latest stable releases of Flash Player 10.0.x and 9.0.x, as well as any older vers... |
5 June 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Android phone users are getting closer and closer to seeing Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 available for their devices. After a long wait, a more specific time frame for the release of the technology has been unveiled. Flash Player 10.1 for Android should arrive in June, after being previewed a month earlier, at Goo... |
30 April 2010
08:32 GMT |
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The next release of Google's Android operating system, dubbed Android 2.2 or Froyo, is expected to arrive on handsets later during the ongoing year, bringing along something that users have been long waiting for, namely full support for Adobe's Flash Player 10.1. There are no specific details available on ... |
28 April 2010
04:38 GMT |
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Adobe has just announced that it has begun beta-testing the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 for Android. The two pieces of software are in private testing for now, but the betas will be opened up to the public at some point. Adobe couldn't specify a precise date for the public betas. At the same time, ... |
19 April 2010
05:58 GMT |
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Hardware acceleration for online content is just around the corner, as Adobe has barely released Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate, which brings hardware-assisted video decoding and gaming. On supported platforms, this should translate into better performance and less CPU utilization, which is always a nice thing t... |
7 April 2010
04:09 GMT |
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Users of a Nexus One by HTC device, the first mobile phone that arrived on the market with the Android 2.1 operating system on board, can now enjoy a new leaked ROM for their handsets. Those who like playing with the software solutions on their device will surely enjoy installing the new software on their handsets, ... |
10 March 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Adobe has released a security update for its Flash Player and AIR products. The patch addresses a critical unauthorized cross-domain interaction vulnerability, as well as a Denial of Service issue. Users are advised to upgrade to Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and AIR 1.5.3.1930."A critical vulnerability has been identified ... |
12 February 2010
09:59 GMT |
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Adobe has released an update to its Flash Player and AIR products, which address several vulnerabilities rated critical. A number of six arbitrary code execution flaws and one that can lead to information disclosure have been patched.On December 3, the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) disclosed d... |
9 December 2009
09:25 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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