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Adobe releases patch to fix Flash Player for Windows exploit
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-01-27 01:39
Adobe released an important Flash Player patch to fix a vulnerability over the weekend affecting those who have the Flash Player plugin installed.
The vulnerability, labeled CVE-2015-0311, was featured in the “Angler Exploit Kit,” a toolkit used by hackers. The Angler Exploit Kit is a toolkit that helps hackers initiate mass drive-by-download attacks. Drive-by-download attacks quietly put malware on your computer when you view malicious ads or visit unsecured websites.
Attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-01-23 01:39
Attackers are using compromised websites to exploit a new and currently unpatched vulnerability in Flash Player, a malware researcher has reported.
The new exploit was observed in drive-by-download attacks launched with an exploit kit called Angler, according to an independent researcher who uses the online alias Kafeine.
Feds used Adobe Flash to identify Tor users visiting child porn sites
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-12-17 08:36
A little more than 16 months ago, word emerged that the FBI exploited a recently patched Firefox vulnerability to unmask Tor users visiting a notorious child pornography site. It turns out that the feds had waged an even broader uncloaking campaign a year earlier by using a long-abandoned part of the open source Metasploit exploit framework to identify Tor-using suspects.
Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-10-08 00:33
The publishing world may finally be facing its “rootkit scandal.” Two independent reports claim that Adobe’s e-book software, “Digital Editions,” logs every document readers add to their local “library,” tracks what happens with those files, and then sends those logs back to the mother-ship, over the Internet, in the clear. In other words, Adobe is not only tracking your reading habits, it’s making it really, really easy for others to do so as well.
Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-08-13 00:42
Adobe and Microsoft today each independently released security updates to fix critical problems with their products. Adobe issued patches for Adobe Reader/Acrobat, Flash Player and AIR, while Microsoft pushed nine security updates to address at least 37 security holes in Windows and related software.