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 [...]

Categories: Adobe, Security

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 [...]

Categories: Adobe, Security

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 [...]

Categories: Adobe, Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Dante send me a link to an interesting article that described the latest Adobe Flash Player vulnerability. Adobe published a security advisory yesterday that described a clickjacking vulnerability. In short: An attacker could lure the unsuspecting user into clicking on a link that would give the attacker access to the computer’s microphone and webcam without [...]

Categories: Security

A recent vulnerability in the latest Adobe Flash version lead to a massive attack. More than 220000 pages on the Internet have been hacked most likely with an automated tool using a SQL injection attack. Those pages, some of well respected companies such as Nokia but also many non-profit organizations and town websites, redirect the [...]

Categories: Security, The Web