http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Our friend Mr Jobs will be giggling like a schoolkid tonight !!]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
I can see him buying shots for every single apple employee tonight]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IraQfhlMwi4&feature=player_embedded#! ]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Dear Adobe,
Nice going.
-Steve Jobs
Sent from my hand-coded HTML5 email app]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
noone cares what steve thinks]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Sir, That is quite plainly wrong.

Yours faithfully,
Whitstable J. Smythe Esq.]]>Jun 5th 2010 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
With a name like that, no one cares what YOU think.]]>Jun 5th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Solution to Reader 9.x vulnerability: use Foxit. Solution to Flash vulnerability: use UAC. ]]>Jun 5th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Maybe his share holders do.
Durrrrrr.
Are you Becauseitsnotgoogle reborn?]]>Jun 5th 2010 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/i hate being wrong -_-]]>Jun 5th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Wrong about what?]]>Jun 5th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/You could say the same about iPhone OS too actually.]]>Jun 5th 2010 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Bash all you want.... but the reality is if you aren't viewing some kind of FLASH content on sites like YouTube (millions of other) everyday, you'd be missing it, like it or not. The is inundated with FLASH and it won't go away over night. There are just some things that can't be done as well what FLASH does them. Ads, Games and Videos or only some of them!

If you are using any of the funky HTML5 browser video players, then you know that you may have visited the Test player on YouTube, but didn't stay long. Because if you have the choice (unlike iPlatform iNazis), you know it CRAPTASTIC without FLASH!!!]]>Jun 5th 2010 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
10.1 is Beta software. The most current release build of flash is 10.0 which has the vulnerability described.

On top of that, reader is also affected, and the most recent version at that.

I don't hate flash, I use it all the time. I think Apple is stupid for trying to ditch something their users obviously want, and I never buy Apple products. That doesn't change the fact that flash currently has a crippling vulnerability in the release build of its software. Saying otherwise is just fanboyism.]]>Jun 5th 2010 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Symantec doesn't exactly have the best track record.]]>Jun 5th 2010 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 6th 2010 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
You Android users looking forward to having a critical vulnerability-ridden plugin that will take months to get updated? How exactly do you get a plugin update on a mobile OS? Not from Adobe I would guess.

A mobile system is not like a desktop that flags up new updates ready to install either so you won't even know until it's too late.

In short, suck it Shambantaman Nanchamayan or whatever his name is.

Oh and for the record, I never buy Apple pishy hardware or software or devices - does that make my opinion more cool with all you guys? Honestly, why do tards even say that - I never buy Apple hardware but then agree with the article as if not owning Apple products somehow makes your opinion any more valid?]]>Jun 6th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://marmalademusings.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/mandark2.jpg]]>Jun 6th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
time to switch to Internet Explorer for more security!

UAC (or any limited account system) alone won't protect you from user mode malwares getting installed on your user profile through this flaw (this is true on any operating system, as most malware don't need admin/root privilege anymore to run)

However, as Internet Explorer (on vista/7) is the only browser that sandboxes Flash Player and adobe reader, users of Internet Explorer are safe, as this flaw CANNOT be exploited to write on the hard disk. (thus, no malware can be installed through this flaw). UAC must not have been disabled, otherwise IE sandbox is disabled too (protected mode off)

Note that although google chrome is sandboxed, flash running in chrome is NOT sandboxed (it is running in a separate process, outside the google chrome security sandbox!), making users of chrome as vulnerable as firefox, opera, safari, or IE running on XP]]>Jun 6th 2010 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/yeah, though i HATE IE (any version) it does have the best security, i actually cant deny it, plus lots of other tests have proved it
i was actually quite surprised when i heard it but, heh, whadda ya know?

]]>Jun 6th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
His Steveness pointed this out many, many times and yet the iHaters continue braying about his hidden agenda. CEO Narayan is not fit to gaze upon Lord Steve's magnificent visage.]]>Jun 6th 2010 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
So where you say you don't buy Apple, you can't experience first hand what a heap of crap Flash for OS X is and understand that to many Mac users, it's a system crippling PoS.]]>Jun 7th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Not too smart, Adobe. All other arguments aside your security sucks.]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
and what's your point. every system is full of flaws. try to name one system that doesnt have any security flaws. ]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
...Oh Wait]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Yes? And? ]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
you're too good at that lol]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/must be steve's secret army at work here. Just to prove the point :)]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/but how many systems have as many security flaws as flash?]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
on topic : a closed system with controled or completly closed communication with networks is pretty secure but u can't build a unvunerable system. if u have acces u can break it....]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/You continue to impress Mr. Vader]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/For example Quicktime, which according to Secunia reports had more critical vulnerabilities the last few years than Flash.
Considering that Flash is a lot more widespread, and hence a more attractive target, that says a lot about Apple's own standards when it comes to security.

The biggest security threats tend to be JavaScript, Flash, Word and Acrobat, simply due to the obliquity. If you keep things up to date and use common sense the risks are still small, but if you have really sensitive or secret material on your computer you should preferably not have any of those installed.

I don't know anyone who had their systems compromised by Flash, and while a lot of Apple fanboys keep going on about how insecure Flash is, I have not yet seen or heard anyone that actually got their system compromised by it. If every critical vulnerability in every software would mean a big risk to get infected, our systems would permanently be exploited.

And Apple users should be running 10.1 already, considering how much they been whining about video playback using CPU, since that makes use of the API for HW acceleration that Apple finally made avialable. ]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Maybe they should work on this... ]]>Jun 5th 2010 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Logic and reason has no place here! Posh posh, flim flam!]]>Jun 5th 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
LOL

+1000 force points for you (not that you need them anyway)]]>Jun 5th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
Still can't figure out why they didn't just put some plywood over it or something.... :)]]>Jun 5th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/I must say that was pretty funny, please make me your apprentice.]]>Jun 5th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Lord Vader must become a guest writer for engadget.]]>Jun 5th 2010 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/for the win!]]>Jun 5th 2010 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/
comparing to what?]]>Jun 6th 2010 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/adobes-flash-and-acrobat-have-critical-vulnerability-may-all/Jun 5th 2010 5:48PM