Adobe Systems today released a fix for what it described as a "critical" hole that hackers have successfully exploited in its Flash Player software.
In a security advisory, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) officials said the vulnerability could allow attackers to take control of computers and mobile devices running Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Mac, Android, Solaris and Linux.
The hacker pod2g, who recently found the SHAtter exploit for jailbreaking iOS 4.1 for all iDevices has quit the Chronic Dev Team and will be working independently. He also confirmed that he had given his discovered SHAtter exploit to Chronic Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team and he will not be working on the jailbreak for iOS 4.1/ iOS 4.2.
Last week, Adobe disclosed the existence of a critical vulnerability in Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, as well as Adobe Flash Player 10.1.92.10 for Android.
At the time, the company said it expected to release an updated version of Flash Player during the week of September 27, but that schedule has already been revised.
“Our society thinks of computer programming as lucrative, therefore it must be hard and dull,” says the leader of the Kodu project, Matt MacLaurin. He says software development should be like a fourth-grade art class: explore, create, discover.
No, that's not a typo in the headline: In a post at the Chromium blog, software engineers James Robinson and Gregg Tavares say that early versions of Chrome 7 are boasting speeds 60 times faster than Chrome 6. The key, they say, is hardware acceleration -- the same technology that's giving Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 beta such a boost.
The new feature, say Robinson and Tavares, "picks the best graphics API to use on each OS that Chromium supports: Windows XP/Vista/7, Mac OS and Linux."
Barely 24 hours after HTC unveiled two new Android handsets, a confidential video has emerged which shows the HTC Sense UI running on Windows Phone 7.
HTC employees swerved Windows Phone 7 related questions at a media event held in London yesterday. The company said it was confident that when HTC Windows Phone 7 devices were released that consumers would know it was a HTC device. Company officials declined to comment on how Sense would work on the upcoming devices. Today is a new day though and a video has leaked that appears to show the Sense UI running in Windows Phone 7.
Diaspora, an open source challenger to Facebook, hit its first milestone Wednesday, releasing code for fellow hackers to test drive and improve.
Google's Android operating system is riding a wave of popularity that has rapidly eclipsed Apple's iOS, and by the end of 2010 it's expected to overtake RIM's BlackBerry as the world's leading smartphone platform. However, despite the relative openness and flexibility of the OS, your Android phone still isn't as powerful and customizable as it could be. To unlock all of your phone's potential, you'll need to root it.
Mozilla, which launched the latest beta of Firefox 4 last week, has started to drop features from the still-under-construction browser.
Firefox 4 Beta 5 shipped Sept. 7, and included support for a new audio API (application programming interface) that allows developers to tap raw audio data from within the browser, as well as support for HTTP Strict Transport Security, a Web security protocol that lets site designers force Firefox to automatically use a secure connection.
A month after Oracle announced that it would be no longer supporting the OpenSolaris project and concentrating its energies on Solaris 11, a group is set to announce a fork of the canned project.
Project OpenIndiana says it was conceived during the period after Oracle took over Sun Microsystems and uncertainty prevailed about the future of OpenSolaris, a community project that was begun by Sun in 2005 as a means to encourage developers outside the company to contribute to development.
