Just as Google’s Android platform has officially dropped support for Adobe Flash, more security issues have emerged for the software that’s still widely used on the Web.As reported in PCWorld, Adobe’s quarterly update
Adobe Systems released new versions of Adobe Reader 10.x and 9.x on Tuesday, addressing four arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities and making several security-related changes to the product, including the removal of the bundled
Published on: April 11th, 2012
Lucian Constantin
@itbusinessca
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player."Earlier today, we encountered a malware that exploits a recently (and publicly)
Published on: January 27th, 2012
Lucian Constantin
@itbusinessca
Google patched 15 vulnerabilities in Chrome on Tuesday, paying $6,000 in bounties to bug hunters who reported some of them, and updated the browser to version 16.The one new feature in the upgrade
Published on: December 15th, 2011
Gregg Keizer
@itbusinessca
Zero-day exploits are nerve-racking for IT professionals but are far less dangerous than unpatched older vulnerabilities for which fixes areavailable, Microsoft says.A zero-day is a vulnerability for which a patch is not yet
Published on: October 13th, 2011
Julie Bort
@itbusinessca
Microsoft today said it will issue four security updates next week, only one of which is pegged as critical, to patch 22 vulnerabilities in Windows and Visio 2003.Next Tuesday's patch lineup is smaller
Published on: July 11th, 2011
Gregg Keizer
@itbusinessca
Microsoft said May 5 that it will patch a critical bug in its Windows server software and two other vulnerabilities in PowerPoint, the presentation maker bundled with Office. After April's record-setting Patch Tuesday
Microsoft today confirmed an unpatched vulnerability in Windows just hours after a hacking toolkit published an exploit for the bug. A patch is under construction, but Microsoft does not plan to issue an
Published on: January 5th, 2011
Gregg Keizer
@itbusinessca
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would backport an Office 2010 security feature to the older and more widely used Office 2003 and Office 2007 early next year. Dubbed Office File Validation (OVE),
Published on: December 16th, 2010
Gregg Keizer
@itbusinessca
Adobe Reader X is here. Adobe announced earlier this year that it was working on a more secure version of its ubiquitous PDF reading software, Adobe Reader. The new version includes Protected Mode,
Published on: November 22nd, 2010
Tony Bradley
@itbusinessca
Perhaps you've heard that the Apple Mac OS X operating system is simply more secure by design and not prone to the security flaws and vulnerabilities that plague the dominant Microsoft Windows operating
Published on: November 12th, 2010
Tony Bradley
@itbusinessca
Apple has revealed that the iOS 4.1 update will be launched today.For a brief time over the weekend, the company's U.K. site stated that the update, which CEO Steve Jobs said would be
Published on: September 8th, 2010
Gregg Keizer
@itbusinessca
Adobe has said it will issue an emergency patch the week of Aug. 16 to fix a critical flaw in its Reader and Acrobat software.The bug was disclosed by researcher Charlie Miller at
Published on: August 9th, 2010
Gregg Keizer
@itbusinessca
Microsoft urged Windows users to update their software Tuesday, saying it's now seen more than 25,000 attacks leveraging one of the critical bugs fixed in July's monthly security patches.Microsoft researchers tracked a "fairly
Published on: July 15th, 2010
Robert McMillan
@itbusinessca
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