Adobe patches Flash zero-day, but it's Office not browsers you need to be worried about
Hackers find a crafty way to deliver a Flash exploit.
Hackers find a crafty way to deliver a Flash exploit.
Microsoft patches dozens of dangerous bugs in its August update, many of them affecting its Edge JavaScript engine.
Mozilla's Firefox 52 hits key milestones in its plan to improve security for users.
Online crooks have served up a special serve of Android banking malware designed to dupe customers of Australia’s big four banks to divulge SMS two-factor authentication codes.
The title of security analyst is the most in-demand position in IT, according to a survey of industry demand. Yet much of that job still involves trying to teach employees not to fall for online scams – which, according to new figures, took over 2500 Australians for more than $22.7m last year alone. Add to this concerns that a defeat for anti-piracy efforts around the movie Dallas Buyers' Club will lead to increased use of BitTorrent – and all the security issues that it entails – and it's a tough, thankless job.
David Braue | 15 Feb | Read more
Just as Adobe released new Flash Player patches, Google has given advertisers six months to convert all their display ads to HTML5.
Australian PC users are making slow progress in reducing their exposure to unpatched applications and operating systems, new figures from Flexera Software have shown even as major vendors step up their efforts to remove key vulnerable software from circulation.
David Braue | 29 Jan | Read more
Adobe’s last scheduled patch for Flash Player this year is huge, bringing fixes for a whopping 79 bugs, which came as Apple released iOS 9.2 with fixes for 49 flaws.
It seems we hear about new Flash exploits every week. To really stay protected, consider ditching Flash altogether.
Susie Ochs | 15 Oct | Read more
Google has released the stable version of Chrome 45, bringing 29 security fixes accompanied by $40,500 in rewards to security researchers.
Amid calls to accelerate the death of Adobe Flash Player, at least once PC vendor is taking matters into its own hands.
Jared Newman | 17 Jul | Read more
System76, a PC maker that ships systems with Linux distribution Ubuntu, has abandoned pre-installed Flash Player because of security concerns.
Now more than ever, leaving Adobe Flash Player on your system is looking like a dubious proposition.
Jared Newman | 14 Jul | Read more
Adobe has joined a bug disclosure program that invites researchers to report new flaws in its web applications. What can hackers expect for their work? Not a cash bounty.
A French company that mines and sells zero-day exploits to governments says the lower cost of exploiting Java is attracting hackers towards it over Adobe’s Flash.