It might be common, but that doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to wail against it – especially since I was not familiar with this particular case. As it turns out, several of Adobe products’ download pages have opt-out checkboxes to also install Google Chrome. This was spyware-like behaviour when Apple…
Adobe Prenotification Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat
The US-CERT Current Activity web page is a regularly updated summary of the most frequent, high-impact types of security incidents currently being reported to the US-CERT. Last reviewed: September 9, 2011 09:11:32 EDT Adobe Prenotification Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat added September 9, 2011 at 08:18 am Adobe…
Adobe admits Google engineer responsible for Flash Player bug patches
Adobe last week acknowledged that as many as 80 bugs in Flash Player were reported by a Google security engineer, as it continued to defend its decision not to spell out details of the vulnerabilities. Google also cited the same number, apparently putting to rest the spat between the engineer,…