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March 20, 2010

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Suspect Eats USB Drive

By eSecurityPlanet Staff

| Security Headlines From Around the Web Article Published March 04, 2010

Florin Necula swallowed a Kingston flash drive while waiting to be questioned at a Secret Service office.
Tags: hardware, Flash, USB, hard drive, hacker

Adobe Says Sorry for Aging Bug

By eSecurityPlanet Staff

| Security Headlines From Around the Web Article Published February 09, 2010

A company product manager has apologized for a 16-month-old vulnerability.
Tags: Adobe, Flash, patch, bug, vulnerability

Flash Is at Risk, But It's Not All Adobe's Fault

By Sean Michael Kerner

| Features Article Published February 01, 2010

Black Hat security researcher details flaws including XSS-like attacks -- and what Web site owners and developers can do to avoid them.
Tags: security, Black Hat, Adobe, Flash, XSS

Apple Intros 2010's First Mac OS Security Update

By Sean Michael Kerner

| Patches Article Published January 20, 2010

Mac users get Flash, audio, and printing updates for some very serious security issues.
Tags: OS X, Mac, security, Apple, Flash

Microsoft Urges Flash Update for XP Users

By eSecurityPlanet Staff

| Security Headlines From Around the Web Article Published January 13, 2010

The company has confirmed the presence of bugs in the version of Flash bundled with Windows XP.
Tags: Microsoft, update, Flash, Windows XP, operating system

Blitzableiter Tool Cleans Up Flash Code

By eSecurityPlanet Staff

| Security Headlines From Around the Web Article Published January 04, 2010

Felix "FX" Lindner has developed a tool that analyzes and cleans up Flash code to prevent security holes from being exploited.
Tags: security, software, Flash, code

9/29: Fake Firefox Add-on Trojan Tracks Web Surfing

Alerts Article Published September 29, 2009

Troj/FFSpy-A is a fake "Adobe Flash Player v0.2" Firefox add-on, which monitors and intercepts web requests and then reports them to a third party.
Tags: Firefox, security, Adobe, Flash, Web

8/3: Bloodhound.Exploit.266 is Heuristic Detection

Alerts Article Published August 03, 2009

Bloodhound.Exploit.266 is a heuristic detection for files attempting to exploit the Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
Tags: Symantec, Adobe, Flash, business, Acrobat

7/24: Trojan.Swifi Exploits Adobe Flash

Alerts Article Published July 24, 2009

Trojan.Swifi is a Trojan horse that may be downloaded from a Web site and exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player.
Tags: Symantec, Adobe, Flash, Web, business

7/22: Trojan.Pidief.G Arrives in PDF

Alerts Article Published July 22, 2009

Trojan.Pidief.G is a Trojan horse that arrives in a .pdf file and exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player.
Tags: Symantec, Adobe, Flash, business, PDF