Microsoft released six patches for eleven vulnerabilities today for Windows, Office, SQL and other products. Adobe also updated their Reader app to fix four vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious PDF files. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) becomes an ISO standard
Have you accessed or modified the data embedded in a file today? Even if you have not, there is a good chance you did recently. This is because the XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) for tagging information electronically has become part of the digital document landscape of today and a new…
(3) HIGH: Adobe Shockwave Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
Category: Widely Deployed Software Affected: Shockwave Player 11.6.3.633 and prior for Windows and Macintosh View full post on @RISK: The Consensus Security Alert View full post on National Cyber Security
Adobe Patches Flash Player Security Flaws
The emergency update patches seven vulnerabilities. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Oracle Java and Adobe Shockwave patches for February too
Adobe and Oracle both released critical fixes as their valentine to you. Shockwave and Java both contain remote code execution vulnerabilities, so be sure to update them as soon as possible. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
TicketWeb issues second warning following fake Adobe spam hack
TicketWeb issued a second warning late last night following the weekend security breach by spammers purporting to offer an Adobe Acrobat upgrade. The online ticket seller, who acknowledged the breach of their email database on February 12, issued a statement advising customers not to click the link after they had…
TicketWeb security breached by fake Adobe scammers
TicketWeb has suffered a security breach which saw emails containing malicious links purporting to be from Adobe sent to its customers. On February 11 customers of the British ticketing site reported receiving up to four emails all with the subject ‘Action Required: Update Your PDF Application’. The email claimed that…
Adobe issues support for Flash Player sandboxing in Firefox
Adobe has launched the pubic beta of a new Flash Player sandbox feature for Firefox users, making attacks more difficult for cybercriminals. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
Adobe makes pitch for defensive security research to cripple exploit writing
Adobe security and privacy director Brad Arkin urges the security industry to focus on the latest exploit techniques and develop mitigations that make exploit writing costly. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
Flash Player SMS scam charges victims for free Adobe software
BitDefender has uncovered a creative scheme that charges people via SMS for what should be a free copy of Adobe Systems’ Flash player, which is apparently undergoing a test run on a Russian social network. The scam was uncovered after one of security vendor BitDefender’s customers found a suspicious link…
