Adobe today released two technology previews for Adobe Flash and Adobe Air. Adobe Flash 10.1 Pre-Release and Adobe Air 2.0 Beta are now both available for download at Adobe Labs. Both applications are available for all supported operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux) although some of the new features introduced are limited to a specific [...]
Mozilla Flash Upgrade Statistics
The Mozilla development team announced earlier that month that they would check the Flash version of Firefox users after each upgrade to inform users about security issues if they were not running the latest version of Adobe Flash. They estimated that more than 80% of all Firefox users would run an outdated – and thus [...]
Convert Adobe Flash Files To Screensavers
Screensavers are not really that useful anymore unless you are connected to an old computer monitor. Today’s top reason for running screensavers is plain and simple entertainment. Yes, there are users out there who believe that it is still necessary to run screensavers to protect the computer monitor but that’s probably not the main reason [...]
Mozilla Checks Flash Version After Firefox Updates
Web browser attacks are an increasing threat these days. Attackers not only expoit web browser vulnerabilities but also those of plugins and add-ons that are installed in the web browser. The Adobe Flash plugin is one of the high priority targets of attackers due to its distribution percentage. A recent article at H-Online estimates that [...]
Adobe Fixes Critical Shockwave Vulnerability
Adobe has issues a security patch for their Adobe Shockwave software program that fixes on vulnerability that has been rated critical. The vulnerability gives attackers, who can attack systems remotely, control over affected computer systems. The interesting aspect of the issued patch is that Adobe recommends to completely uninstall Adobe Shockwave 11.5.0.596 or earlier on [...]
Adobe Flash Security Scan
While Adobe Flash offers many exciting possibilities to web developers and users alike it also introduces several additional security risks to computer systems. We already discussed the impact of so called Flash Cookies which are able to track a user even if he deletes the normal cookies regularly across multiple web browsers.
The HP Security [...]
Flash 10 Breaks Wordpress Flash File Uploader
I have been trying to use the default Wordpress Flash uploader for the last days only to find out that it did not work at all anymore after updating Flash to version 10. Clicking on the Choose Files To Upload button did not have any effect anymore. The only solution was to use the basic [...]
