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Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-06-29 05:17
We announced last November that we are focusing our work with Flash on PC browsing and mobile apps packaged with Adobe AIR, and will be discontinuing our development of the Flash Player for mobile browsers.
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Java and Flash vulnerabilities being exploited by cyber-spies
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-05-18 12:29
Cyber-spies have planted Java- and Flash-exploiting malware on web sites focused on human rights, defence and foreign policy. Over the last two weeks, the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks internet threats, has discovered several such compromised web pages that download the malware through visitors' browsers. The malware, which exploits known flaws in Adobe Flash and Java, is aimed at Mac and Windows systems.
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Adobe backs down, will secure last generation of apps
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-05-14 06:03
Late last week, Adobe set off a bit of a kerfuffle when it announced that three of its applications suffered from serious security flaws. They offered readers a simple fix: pay to upgrade to the latest version. Considering the latest version of the company's Creative Suite was less than a week old at the time, this represented both an extremely short period of support for the previous generation of software, and an extremely high price to fix a set of potential vulnerabilities. The move was widely panned by both security experts and Adobe customers.
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Flash Player Critical Vulnerability Exploited in IE for Windows Only
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-05-11 06:17
A critical security flaw that has been affecting Adobe's Flash Player application now has an update from the software company towards remedying the problem. Actually the flaw had been enabling hackers to exploit it so users could be deceived into taking down malware while browsing in IE (Internet Explorer) that too was getting impacted. Redorbit.com published this on May 6, 2012.
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Adobe patches another Flash hole
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-05-07 05:19
A Flash vulnerability that's being exploited by hackers, to gain control of victims' machines, is the target of a security update released over the weekend by Adobe.
"There are reports that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, in active targeted attacks, designed to trick the user into clicking on a malicious file delivered in an email message," Adobe said in a security bulletin.
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