Adobe Patches Flash Player
Adobe has issued an update to Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player) that patches several serious security vulnerabilities. The latest version is Flash Player 9.0.47.0 They’ve also updated the older version 7 to version 7.0.70.0. The patch may be installed through the auto update feature of Flash Player or you can visit the [...]
Apple Adds to Patch Tuesday
Apple joins the the Tuesday patch party and releases a security update for Quicktime along with a bugfix update for iTunes. The patches are for the software on both Windows and OS X. The Quicktime update, to version 7.2 includes eight security vulnerability fixes some of which will allow code execution. It also includes updates [...]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2007
It’s the second Tuesday of July and that means patches from Microsoft. This month brings six patches, three rated critical, two important, and one moderate. Only five of the patches (and only two of the critical patches) are for desktops. The sixth patch only affects server operating systems. Windows Vista also gets its own unique [...]
Vulnerability Pits Firefox Against IE
A new zero-day vulnerability exists when both Firefox 2.x and Internet Explorer are installed on the same machine. The exploit is most likely to be available on PCs with Firefox 2.0.0.2 installed due to changes made for Microsoft Vista compatibility. The general consensus of the comments are that both applications contribute the the exploit. Firefox [...]
Security Update 2007-006 for Apple OS X
Apple has released a security-only update for OS X. It’s the appropriately named Security Update 2007-006 as Apple has released one security update a month so far this year. This update is needed for 10.4.9 along with the just released 10.4.10. It’s also needed for 10.3.9. The security update addresses two vulnerabilities. One is in [...]