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After enlisting the help of Russian security firm Kaspersky to strengthen the security of Mac OS X, Apple has released Leopard Security Update 2012-003, a package containing fixes for the company’s aging OS. Ending at version 10.5.8, Mac OS X Leopard is the predecessor of Snow Leopard. Set years apart from OS ... |
15 May 2012
02:31 GMT |
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Apple has announced that Safari 5.1.7 for OS X Lion and Safari 5.1.7 for OS X Snow Leopard will disable out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player, once installed. The reason behind Apple’s radical decision stems from the fact that “out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player do not include the latest sec... |
10 May 2012
08:15 GMT |
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A new version of Apple’s standard web browser has been released for Macintosh and Windows platforms. It brings improvements to performance, stability, compatibility, and security, as well as some important changes, such as no support for old version of the Flash Player plug-in on Macs. Apple documents two chan... |
10 May 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Adobe has released an emergency Flash Player update that resolves a memory corruption vulnerability in the NetStream class that could reportedly lead to code execution on Macintosh, Linux, and Windows computers.In a security bulletin issued Friday, Adobe strongly advised users of Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.233 (and ... |
5 May 2012
10:40 GMT |
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The feature list announced in this release for the upcoming stable version of Flash Player 11.3 is quite impressive. It includes full screen keyboard input for Flash Player, low latency audio support for streaming audio, as well as protected mode for Firefox (on Windows).
The current beta boasts important traits, to... |
6 April 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Adobe released Flash Player 11.2 not only to provide customers with some new features for gaming, but also to address a couple of critical memory corruption vulnerabilities that affected the earlier versions of the product.
The update addresses a memory corruption flaw related to URL security domain checking and one... |
29 March 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Adobe Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 are here. Judging by the version number alone, it's easy to realize that they're just incremental updates, bringing several new features but nothing revolutionary.
A lot more interesting though is the announcement that some developers may have to start paying to use "pre... |
28 March 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Adobe released the stable version for build 11.2 of their Flash Player. As far as the highlights are concerned, the new release announces premium features for gaming, and a collaboration with Unity Technologies. This allows Unity customers to publish web-based 3D games in Flash Player using the premium features for ... |
28 March 2012
03:28 GMT |
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Nokia N9 recently received a major software update that bring lots of new features and improvements that enhance the overall performance of the MeeGo-based smartphone.
Following the release of the PR1.2 software update, two new apps for the N9 have been released and are now available for download via Nokia Store.
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19 March 2012
10:24 GMT |
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Adobe released a priority 2 security update for Flash Player after discovering certain vulnerabilities that in theory could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system.
According to Adobe’s advisory, Flash Player 11.1.102.62 and earlier versions for all platforms, Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.6 and... |
6 March 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Adobe has unveiled release candidate versions of its flagship platform products, Flash Player and AIR, with Flash Player 11.2 RC and AIR 3.2 RC. Since AIR 3.2 is built on top of Flash Player, it comes with most or all of the improvements and new features included in the Flash plugin.
Flash Player 11.2 may be a relat... |
27 February 2012
07:14 GMT |
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Adobe has launched the release candidate for AIR 3.2, which introduces Stage3D hardware accelerated rendering for mobile devices running iOS and Android.
Besides enabling hardware accelerated cinematic, the Stage3D API also allows for high-performance 2D and 3D graphics, with games being able to run at 60 frames per... |
27 February 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Gnash, a free/libre SWF movie player, available as a standalone application and as a browser plug-in for Mozilla Firefox, Chromium and Konqueror, is now at version 0.8.10. Gnash 0.8.10 has a lot of fixes and it even implements some new features. There are a lot of changes, so you can find a complete list in the offic... |
24 February 2012
17:05 GMT |
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Yeah, like the title says, it looks like Adobe made a partnership agreement with Google to develop a Flash Player plugin ONLY for the Google Chrome web browser. This will happen sometime later this year, when the Flash Player downloads for the Linux platform will be completely removed from Adobe's website."For F... |
22 February 2012
07:23 GMT |
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A zero-day vulnerability that exists in Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 and earlier for Windows is currently being exploited by cybercriminals who social engineer users into clicking on malicious links sent via email. In response to the flaw that apparently affects only Internet Explorer customers, Adobe released Flas... |
16 February 2012
03:48 GMT |
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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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