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Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE.O) warned on Monday that hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in its Flash multimedia software platform in web browsers, and the company urged users to quickly patch their systems to prevent such attacks. Happy any day of the week
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...and how is this is different from the last 17 years?
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That's a bit harsh, it's not always Adobe Flash that has vulnerabilities found in it, it's often Adobe's Acrobat Reader too.
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I only say that because it has earned that reputation. It's about as secure as IE6.
I know Reader has a ton of security holes in it too, earning it about the same reputation.
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It might help if there was a patch you could apply for IE11 and Edge.
Oh well; disabling Flash works just as well.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Isn't there one?
Quote: Adobe said it had released a Flash security update to fix the problem, which affected Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer browsers as well as desktop versions.
For Edge, AFAIK it'd be pushed via windows update similar to how Chrome gets Flash.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It wasn't there when I checked this morning.
When I checked an hour ago, it started downloading FCU.
It's now been sat on "Downloading updates: 62%" for a good 20 minutes, with no network, disk or CPU activity.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Isn't that warning on one of those scrolling signs?
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The company’s A.I. project, AutoML, has successfully taught machine-learning software how to program machine-learning software. It then proceeded to sue itself for theft of intellectual property
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The search giant is rolling out a new Chrome Cleanup tool for Google Chrome in Windows which will automatically scan your computer for potentially harmful software. It found that Edge virus right away and offered to delete it
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Well, it can start by removing that chrome virus right away.
Seriously, I installed chrome because I wanted a web browser. If I wanted an anti-virus software I would have downloaded and installed one. Google should really stop overstepping it's boundaries like that.
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Then how would they get permission to scan your files?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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They could politely ask Microsoft to let them have a look or make an exchange of info
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Even after clicking through to Google's original post it's not clear. Is this a full system AV packed into Chrome, or just a new version of Chrome's built in defenses against crapware being injected into it?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's a very good question. I got the impression that it was the latter (just expanded with a few things from ESET), but I could easily be wrong.
Ah, it also seemed to expand the functionality of the Chrome Cleanup Tool[^]
TTFN - Kent
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Dan Neely wrote: just a new version of Chrome's built in defenses against crapware being injected into it?
Now this I would be fine with. I'm tired of having to protect my browser from crapware injection. Why does every installer for Open Source software want to install a browser extension? and why does java still try to do that too?
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A year ago, if you’d asked me if I was going to build a custom setup to measure keyboard latency, I would have said that’s silly, and yet here I am, measuring keyboard latency with a logic analyzer. And here I thought it was just that my typing was getting faster
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My latest keyboard was made by DEC in the 90s.
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And it could probably be used to concuss a moose, and still keep typing.
TTFN - Kent
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GitHub celebrates another year in the Octoverse with 24 million developers working in over 67 million repositories. That’s an awful lot of code. Let’s take a look at what is going on in the many repositories of GitHub! Because all code is on GitHub, isn't it?
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The DOJ wants the authority to access US companies' overseas data. It's so good this is being decided by noted Internet scholars
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Vendors are reacting swiftly to a vulnerability which lets attackers eavesdrop on your network traffic. Respect yourself, protect yourself
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Google today announced a fun update to Google Maps that’ll allow you to virtually visit a dozen additional planets and moons in our solar system. But y'all can't get there from here
Unless you have a handy rocket.
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