Popular web browser plugins like Flash Player or Java are a prime target of malware and hackers. The core reasons are simple: Lack of centralized updating and little to no protection of the underlying system if the plugin has been compromised. Changes have been introduced, but only in select browsers at this point of time. [...]

Bundling third party applications with your own software is not a new thing on the Internet. It is for instance quite common that you see the Ask Toolbar, Babylon Toolbar, or any other toolbar added to software installations. Users who do not pay attention to the installation are then not only installing the software they [...]

A security update for Adobe Flash Player has been released today that fixes several critical security vulnerabilities that Adobe identified in the software. Affected by vulnerabilities are all desktop versions of Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.152 and earlier for Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux and Solaris as well as Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.153 or earlier versions for [...]

The world has been wondering what the next move would be in the stand-off between HTML5 and Adobe’s Flash Player.  Apple has always resisted Flash on the iPhone and iPad demonstrating that it runs slowly on the Mac and citing security concerns, many of which are valid.  Despite this Flash still has many fans and [...]

If you are not running Google Chrome as your one and only browser on your PC system, you are probably tired of having to update Adobe’s Flash Player regularly to protect the system from security vulnerabilities. This could change soon with the release of Adobe’s Flash Player 11.2. The new version of Flash, currently available [...]

Adobe software today has released the final versions of Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe Air 3. Probably the biggest feature of Flash Player 11 is hardware accelerated graphics rendering support through Stage 3D. Adobe states that the new technology improves rendering times by a factor of up to a 1000 times over Flash Player [...]

Adobe yesterday evening released a security patch for Adobe Flash Player that fixes several critical security vulnerabilities. Affected are all versions of Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.7 and earlier for all supported operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris) as well as Adobe Flash Player 10.3.186.6 and earlier for the Android operating system. According to Adobe, attackers [...]

It is the second Tuesday of the month again and this means security patch day at Microsoft and Adobe. Adobe has just released a security bulletin for Adobe Reader and Acrobat that fix several critical vulnerabilities in versions of the pdf software. Vulnerabilities affect Adobe Reader X and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe [...]

Adobe has synced their security release schedule with that of Microsoft. It is therefor not surprising that the company announced yesterday the availability of security updates for several of their products. Security updates were released for Adobe Shockwave Player, Flash Media Server, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Photoshop CS5 and RoboHelp. All security issues have received [...]

Adobe has recently released the first beta version of the upcoming Adobe Flash 11 version. The beta is publicly available, specifically for testing purposes and developers who want to integrate the new features into their applications. Probably the biggest new feature in the beta is native 64-bit support for 64-bit Windows operating systems. While still [...]

Microsoft had a huge patch day yesterday with 16 security bulletins for the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and other Microsoft software. Adobe, the company behind popular technologies such as Flash Player, Shockwave or Adobe Reader released five security bulletins on the same day after teaming up with Microsoft to coordinate security releases.. [...]

The integration of Adobe Flash Player 10.3 in the latest Google Chrome Stable release yesterday hinted already at the imminent release of the final version of Flash Player 10.3. This time, it took less than 24 hours; Adobe has enabled downloads for all supported operating systems, so that users can download and install Flash Player [...]

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Flash Player that fixes a critical security issue in the application that had been discovered earlier this month. The Google Chrome browser was the first that received a patch yesterday, followed today by all Flash Player versions for the web browsers that rely on a Flash installation and [...]

Flash player users, which is the majority of Internet users, do not come to rest in past years. There is seldom a month passing by without another Flash vulnerability. Adobe today released a security advisory warning for all Flash users that describes a critical security vulnerability in the popular software. Affected are more or less [...]

Adobe has released updates for their popular Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat applications. The updates address a critical security vulnerability that was discoveredearlier this month. The critical vulnerability affects Adobe Flash, and since Adobe implemented Flash technology in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, those products as well. The Flash vulnerability affects all Adobe [...]

Adobe today has released a new security advisory for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat. All three applications are affected by a critical 0-day vulnerability that is exploited via Excel email attachments. Vulnerable versions are Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.33 and earlier for all supported desktop operating systems, Adobe Flash Player 10.1.106.16 and earlier for [...]

Adobe’s Flash Player is one of the most installed technologies on desktop computer systems. Adobe estimates that more than 99% of Internet viewers have Flash installed on their system. Criticism of Adobe Flash, and Adobe’s handling of Flash related issues, has risen in past years. Major points of criticism include private and security related issues [...]

Adobe Software yesterday released updates for some of its popular software applications, including updates for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and the Adobe Flash Player. The updates address critical security issues in the products making them mandatory updates for all users of said products. The security update for Adobe Flash Player fixes several critical vulnerability in Flash [...]

Patch Tuesday is coming up and Microsoft has released an advanced notification about the upcoming security patches. Patch Tuesday refers to the second Tuesday of each month on which security patches are released to the public. The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2011 details the upcoming patches. A total of 12 security bulletins [...]

The idea on paper sounded great: Add a sandbox to Adobe Flash to prevent many attacks from affecting the underlying operating system. It appears however that the sandbox which has been introduced in December 2010 is not as effective as it could be. Security researcher Billy Rios discovered a way to bypass Adobe’s Flash Player [...]

Adobe has just released a first beta version of the upcoming Flash Player 10.2 for all supported operating systems. The beta version introduces several new and enhanced features that may make it worthwhile for some users to try it out right now. One of the biggest addition in Adobe Flash Player 10.2 is improved hardware [...]

A new beta version of Adobe’s Flash player has arrived today and it offers compelling improved hardware acceleration technologies.  The new player, which you can download here, offers “ A new method for video playback in Flash Player will allow developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration of the video rendering pipeline, enabling best-in-class playback performance. Stage [...]

If you do not like Adobe’s Download Manager, or want to distribute Adobe Reader to computer systems without direct Internet connection, then you may want to use or even need the Adobe Reader offline installers to do so. This guide explains where those offline installers of Adobe’s pdf reader can be downloaded. I’ll also include [...]

Adobe’s latest pdf reader Adobe Reader x has been released yesterday. Wait X? Why did Adobe move to Roman numerals? Maybe they have switched numerals to visualize the cut, or the beginning of a new era, for their product. Maybe it is just because they thing the X is cooler than the 10. Whatever the [...]

Adobe’s Flash Player was updated yesterday fixing several security vulnerabilities in the process. The patch was initially slated for a November 9 release but released in advance yesterday. But Adobe Flash was not the only vulnerable Adobe product. Adobe has scheduled an update for their popular pdf readers Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on November [...]

It has been a bad year for Adobe’s security team, as Adobe products where hit with many critical security vulnerabilities in that time. The latest was just announced yesterday in a security advisory over at Adobe. The critical vulnerability affects both Adobe Flash Player versions 10.1.85.3 and earlier on all supported operating systems (that’s Windows, [...]

Adobe has just released an update for their popular pdf reader Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, raising versions of the two programs to 9.4. Both program updates fix critical security vulnerabilities identified in Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier, as well as Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier. Vulnerabilities affect all supported operating systems, and users are encouraged [...]

Adobe yesterday has released a preview version of Flash Player Square, a new version of the popular browser plugin. This preview version adds two core new features to Adobe’s Flash Player, namely enhanced support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Beta which was also released yesterday, and native 64-bit support for all supported operating systems including [...]

Some time ago I made the decision to dump the two popular Adobe products Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader from my system. Since then, Adobe did not come to rest, as the company was hit by one 0-day exploit after the other. What made matters worse was the reaction time to fix the exploits, which [...]

Ten years ago where were worms like Kournikova and I Love You that were infecting computers worldwide with malware and getting mainstream attention on the news.  In that time operating systems and anti-malware programs have improved but now a new sex worm is making its way around the world according to the BBC. Some variants [...]

Ghacks regulars know that it is possible to configure Adobe Reader from the settings manager page on the Macromedia website. System administrators and security experts have addressed two problems with the online availability of the settings manager. Attackers can for instance fake certificates to make changes to the settings. Another problem is that it is [...]

Adobe in a security advisory yesterday released new versions of their popular pdf reading applications Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe Reader 9.3.3, which was released less than a month ago, is replaced by version 9.3.4. Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.4 fix several critical security vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 9.3.3 and earlier for Windows, Macintosh and [...]

Today is the second Tuesday of the month and that means it is Microsoft Patch Day. Microsoft is keeping a tight schedule when it comes to security patches. If they are not heavily exploited or very critical they are released on the second Tuesday of each month. Today’s patch day is already available via the [...]

What is it with Adobe Reader and vulnerabilities? It feels like new security vulnerabilities are found in the software at an accelerated pace this year. Adobe yesterday released a security advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, to announce to the world that critical security vulnerabilities have been found – once again – in Adobe Reader [...]

Hackers have moved in the last few years away from attacking platforms such as Windows, and instead on to attacking software.  This is in a large part because the security of operating systems such as Microsoft Windows have increased incredibly in recent years while other software companies have remained complacent. The latest threat is another [...]

Microsoft has announced that it’s to extend it’s Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) to include vulnerability sharing information from Adobe. The programme, launched in October 2008 allows sharing of information about security vulnerabilities with security software vendors.  So far 65 companies have signed up to the scheme.

Apple software had more reported security vulnerabilities than any other company in the first half of 2010, according to security company Secunia, a reputable security company that tracks security vulnerabilities since 2002. Last years leader, Oracle, dropped to second spot while Microsoft managed to retain the third spot firmly in the last five years. Adobe [...]

The uninstallation of Flash Player can sometimes be problematic, and not as easy as clicking on the uninstall button. The first thing that Windows users should note for instance is that there are two versions of the Flash Player plugin available, one for Internet Explorer, the other for the remaining web browsers such as Firefox, [...]

Adobe just recently released updates to their pdf reader Adobe Reader, raising its version to 9.3.3. The update fixed several security issues of which at least one was actively exploited in the wild. Computer users who visit the Adobe website might notice that Adobe is not offering that version for download, anywhere on the page. [...]

Adobe today has released a new version of their pdf readers Adobe Reader and Acrobat raising the versions of said products to 9.3.3 respectively 9.3.3. Affected by the vulnerabilities are Adobe Reader 9.3.2 and earlier for Windows, Macintosh and Unix as well as Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 and earlier for Windows and Macintosh. The security bulletin [...]

Adobe have today released a patch to sort out the critical vulnerability in Flash that was discovered last week, which is a quick turnaround. The patch, released through version 10.1 of the Flash player is available now from www.adobe.com and there is also a new version of Adobe Air as well.

Adobe has released the final version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 after a series of release candidates and betas. The new version is fixing a security vulnerability that was disclosed earlier this week making it a recommended download and install on every system with Flash installed. The biggest change introduced in Flash 10.1 is hardware [...]

Critical vulnerabilities that affected Adobe’s flagship products Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player were revealed in a security advisory by the Adobe Product Incident Response Team. The vulnerability affects Flash Player 10 and 9 as well as Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 which covers the majority of the install base. The vulnerabilities received a [...]

Two new vulnerabilities affecting the Adobe products Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash were reported by Secunia earlier this day. They have in common that they have been both rated as extremely critical, the highest available severity rating for vulnerabilities posted at Secunia. Highly critical is a rating for “remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can lead to [...]

Security issues with Adobe products seem to be in the news quite frequently in the last months. No week passes by with yet another report about a security vulnerability or update of one of the popular Adobe software programs. Recently an Adobe Reader vulnerability was discovered that allows attackers to execute code on a target [...]

Adobe released an update for their popular pdf reader Adobe Reader a few days ago that fixed several security vulnerabilities in the program. Most Adobe Reader installations should have picked up the new version automatically thanks to the new updating mechanism that Adobe has added to the application recently. Computer users who work with Adobe [...]

Adobe, just like Microsoft, releases security updates on a schedule unless a vulnerability is actively exploited on a large scale and requires immediate attention. Updates for their pdf readers Adobe Reader and Acrobat have been released today that fix several security vulnerabilities. The critical vulnerabilities are affecting all operating systems that Adobe Reader is compatible [...]

Adobe just announced changes to the way they deliver updates to their users, specifically an option to install an Adobe Reader update silently in the background without user interaction. The new feature will be enabled together with the scheduled release of Adobe Reader 9.3.2 on Tuesday, April 13. System administrators still have the options to [...]

Adobe Flash has a market penetration of 99% which means that it is installed on 99 out of 100 computer systems according to a study posted on the Adobe website. Security vulnerabilities on the other hand become more frequent and users have to update their versions of Flash regularly to secure their computer systems. A [...]

If you are following the official way to install Adobe Flash either globally on the computer system or for one of the supported web browsers you will notice that Adobe is making use of the Adobe Download Manager to deliver the contents. This procedure adds files to the operating system and could pose a security [...]