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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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One of the main problems with flash cookies, or local shared objects (LSOs), is that they are harder to clean than regular cookies. For regular cookies the browser offers all the means to edit and delete them. That’s supported by all major browsers for a very long time. Local Shared Objects on the other hand [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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