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Stories about: update mechanism

Adobe to Introduce New Reader and Acrobat Updater Adobe plans to launch a new update mechanism for its Reader and Acrobat products next week, capable of automatic deployment of security patches. The technology has been undergoing beta testing since last October.Adobe Reader is the de facto PDF viewer for most of computer users today. However, the program's ubiq... 9 April 2010 10:05 GMT Google Could Be Used to Control Botnets A new piece of malware called Downloader.Sninfs, which uses Twitter and various pastebin services to issue updates to its botnet, has been recently discovered. Security experts now warn that Google's search engine could be abused in a similar manner to make a botnet more resilient to takedown efforts.Botnets pla... 24 August 2009 05:49 GMT April 1st Passes, Conficker Stays Put April 1st, the date depicted by some of the media in the past week as being the Internet's doomsday brought forth by the infamous Conficker computer worm, has passed and nothing really significant has happened. Many IT security professionals condemn the hype created and explain how it has actually caused more re... 2 April 2009 04:32 GMT