Microsoft today said it would update Flash on Windows 8 "shortly," although it declined to set a timetable. "In light of Adobe's recently released security updates for its Flash Player, Microsoft is working closely with Adobe to release ...
There will be no certified implementations of Adobe Systems' Flash Player for Android 4.1, and on Aug. 15 the player will take a bow and no longer be available for download from Google's app store Play, Adobe said in blog post Thursday. ...
Tags: Adobe, Flash Player, Android 4.1, Google's app store Play
Cyber criminals are using compromised Twitter accounts to distribute messages disguised as coming from friends who suggest recipients click on a link to see themselves on a Facebook video. Sophos reported the trick after receiving a ...
Tags: Direct message virus, Facebook, LinkedIn, Malicious links, social media
Attacks targeting an unpatched vulnerability in the latest versions of Java 7 have become widespread after an exploit for the new flaw was integrated into the popular Blackhole attack toolkit, according to security researchers from ...
Tags: Java 7, unpatched vulnerability, attacks, exploit for flaw
Google will pull the plug for Chrome running on OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, after it releases version 21, which is currently in beta and will reach the browser's "stable" channel sometime next month, the company has announced. Chrome 22, the ...
Cybercriminals are trying to capitalize on Adobe's decision to stop distributing Android Flash Player to new users via Google Play by creating malware and adware apps that masquerade as Flash Player installers. Since Aug. 15, Android ...
Tags: Cybercriminals, Adobe, Android Flash Player, Google Play
Businesses and consumers can now download Windows 8 Release Preview from the Microsoft site. Microsoft said the February release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview was downloaded more than 1 million times in the first 24 hours. Microsoft ...
Microsoft has now updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago. More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late ...
Tags: Bug, flash, highlightedpost, Microsoft, Patches, Windows 8
Cyber criminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies. “Numerous malicious .eu domains have been registered during November which are being used to ...
Tags: cyberattacks, cybercrime, highlightedpost, malware
Criminals broke into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them being legitimate code. As a result of the breach, the company will revoke the certificate next Thursday and will update ...
Tags: Adobe, Criminal, cyber crime, highlightedpost, malware
Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
Tags: Bugs, Microsoft, Patches, Steve Ballmer, Trojan, vulnerabilities
Computerworld-Microsoft today patched a dozen vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer(IE),Windows,Word and Exchange,fixing flaws in the new IE10 for the first time and crushing bugs in Windows 8 and Windows RT for the second month running. ...
Tags: Internet Explorer, dozen vulnerabilities, Windows 8, IE10
Computerworld - Adobe has changed its schedule for releasing Flash Player security updates to coincide with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. "Microsoft and Adobe are now officially married," joked Andrew Storms, director of security ...
Tags: Flash Player, security, updates
Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
Tags: Cyber criminals, Facebook, Windows users, chameleon of internet threats
Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
Tags: Google, Flash Player sandbox, OS X version of Chrome, PPAPI