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Adobe will release a patch on Thursday for a critical hole in Reader that was disclosed at the Black Hat conference late last month, the company said on Wednesday.
Adobe had announced on August 5 that the emergency fix was coming this week, in advance of the next quarterly security release, scheduled for October 12.
The security update will resolve an undisclosed number of critical issues in Reader 9.3.3 for Windows, Mac, and Unix; Acrobat 9.3.3 for Windows and Mac; and Reader 8.2.3 and Acrobat 8.2.3 for Windows and Mac, according to Adobe's advisory.
The flaw,...
Perhaps Facebook is taking advantage of the summer doldrums, or maybe it's a sign that it really is listening to its users.
Either way, the social networking giant continues rolling out updates to its arsenal of features, this time even announcing some new ones.
Facebook's most recent updates include new tools for Notes, a more streamlined user interface for Photos, and access to its revamped privacy controls via mobile devices. Also new: a beta tool that lets you to pose questions to the Facebook community.
Many of these changes are a step in the right direction...
Yahoo walked into the footsteps of Google, and is releasing an HTML5 version of its Mail service for iPad users. The new Yahoo Mail for iPad is now available to all users of the service through the built-in Safari browser. You can try it for yourself from an iPad here.
Yahoo Mail's HTML5 version takes advantage of HTML5 local caching capabilities, so you can access and search messages when you are not connected to the Internet.
The iPad-optimized version of Yahoo Mail lets you search through your messages, or images and files attached to e-mails you received. You can also...
Security firm Sophos recently discovered a new clickjacking scam on Facebook that spreads via the social network's "share" feature and could be costing you $5 a week. The new malware is similar to a so-called "likejacking" worm discovered last May. But instead of exploiting Facebook's "Like" button, the new scam uses the "Share" feature that posts content to your profile wall where your friends are encouraged to click on it.
This is the second Facebook scam reported on by Sophos in recent days. On Monday, the security firm alerted Facebook users...
Google's Chrome Web Store could be ready to launch by October of this year, suggesting that Chrome OS devices are likely on a similar schedule.
Google appears to be getting ready to let Web application developers start playing around with its Chrome Web Store, if a recent presentation at the Game Developer Conference in Europe is any indication. 1UP.com has a report out with pictures and video of Google's Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff explaining how developers will be able to submit apps to the store, which was announced in May at Google I/O.
Most of the presentation was...
Starting this week, searchers on Yahoo will start to see a little "Powered by Bing" message at the bottom of the results page, as the two companies start the public phase of their huge search deal completed last year.
Yahoo announced the milestone along with several updates to various search products and features that had been up in the air ever since Yahoo and Microsoft signed their search outsourcing deal just over a year ago. Under that deal, Microsoft is to provide the back-end crawling, listing, and ranking technologies that generate search results while Yahoo retains...
As of Tuesday, Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger users will now be able to send instant messages to Facebook friends who are logged into the social-networking service.
Microsoft is the first of the major instant-messaging services to connect directly to Facebook Chat. It's part of an effort by the folks in Redmond to evolve Messenger from purely an instant-messaging program to a social hub with activity feeds, video chat, and other connection options.
The addition of the Facebook Chat connection comes as part of an update to the test versions of the next generation of Windows...
Video host Vimeo put out a new version of its player on Tuesday that can detect the hardware of the end user and spit out either an Adobe Flash or HTML5 video player, as well as a proper video stream based on connection.
The feature was designed for compatibility on mobile devices--something Vimeo began working on late last year, though mainly for its paying pro members and for a handful of its featured content channels.
The new player works just the same as the old one, and the embed code itself is the same for both player technologies. The change is that which one gets loaded...
Microsoft unveiled the first wave of games for the Windows 7 smartphone operating system on Tuesday at the GamesCom 2010 conference in Cologne, Germany.
Studios such as Gameloft, Konami Digital Entertainment, Namco Bandai, PopCap and THQ have helped put together a lineup that consists of about 60 titles, including Assassins Creed, Bejeweled LIVE, Castlevania, Frogger, Guitar Hero 5, Halo Waypoint, Splinter Cell Conviction, two Star Wars titles (Conviction and Battle for Hoth), Tower Bloxx NY and Zombie Attack!.
Microsoft has put together a lineup with something to offer everyone...
Samsung is expected to show off an Android-based tablet dubbed the P1000 Galaxy Tab at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin next month, according to multiple reports. The tablet is said to feature a 7-inch touchscreen and offer live video chat capabilities.
The reports compare the new device to Samsung's Galaxy S line of phones, on which the Tab is based. Conflicting reports have the Tab running either a 1-GHz or a 1.2-GHz processor. Samsung would not comment on the reports.
With both front- and rear-facing cameras, which make it possible to engage in video chats,...
The latest viral scam making its way around Facebook is a lure that asks users if they want to install a "dislike" button, says the security firm Sophos.
The scam, like previous ones that promise users certain content for clicking on a link, tricks Facebook members into giving a rogue application permission to access their profile and then posts spam messages from the victim's account and requires the completion of an online survey in order to proceed to the "dislike" button. Last week, a similar ruse made the rounds and offered a video of an Anaconda snake coughing...
An Apple manager was arrested Friday for allegedly accepting kickbacks from Asian suppliers, totaling more than $1 million.
Paul Shin Devine worked at Apple as a global supply manager and allegedly used his position to obtain confidential information from the company, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The information was then allegedly sold to the suppliers, helping them negotiate more favorable contracts with Apple.
"Apple is committed to the highest ethical standards in the way we do business," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said in a statement. "We have...
Facebook has launched a live-streaming channel designed to provide its users with content detailing what's happening at the company's headquarters.
Dubbed Facebook Live, the new service is basically a PR channel for the company. According to a representative, Facebook Live "is a natural extension of our blog and is a way to communicate with our users more directly." Facebook will be airing interviews with people that stop by its headquarters, highlighting its new products, and trying to capture the "activity already happening at Facebook." Whereas it was doing all...
Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform.
Oracle's lawsuit is a disappointing and "baseless" attack not only against Google but also against the open-source Java community, Google spokesman Aaron Zamost said via e-mail on Friday.
"The open-source Java community goes beyond any one corporation and works every day to make the web a better place. We will strongly defend open-source standards and will continue to work with the industry to develop...
Facebook has restored a feature that lets users receive e-mail notifications of new messages sent by their friends, according to a company spokeswoman.
User have complained over the last couple of months that although they had turned on e-mail notifications in Facebook's settings, they did not receive any.
A Facebook spokeswoman said the lack of notifications was "deliberate" as Facebook was conducting a test on the feature. She maintained there was no problem with the system.
"It was a test rather than a problem," according to a statement.
Two Silicon Valley heavyweights are about to reenact the Java wars: this time, in a court room.
Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringing on copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems earlier this year. The terse release claimed Google "knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property."
A copy of the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, says that "Android (including...
Google yesterday shifted Chrome 6 into beta, a move that puts the browser one step closer to a stable release.
Chrome 6 -- specifically version 6.0.472.33 -- includes speed and stability improvements, Google said, as well as a tweaked user interface and enhanced synchronization of bookmarks, passwords and other data among machines running the browser.
In a post to the Chrome blog, Google engineer James Hawkins claimed that Chrome 6 is approximately 15% faster in rendering JavaScript than its predecessor.
The browser, already known for a sparse design that some rivals...
Twitter has launched its Tweet Button, whose goal is to simplify the sharing of Web links on Twitter both for Web publishers and for end users.
Web publishers who adopt the Tweet Button will let their visitors share links on Twitter without leaving their sites, which should benefit both publishers and visitors, according to Twitter.
The Tweet Button triggers a pop-up of a box that automatically incorporates a shortened URL of the page or item to be shared, Twitter said in a blog post on Thursday.
Publishers can also preconfigure the custom text they want each Tweet...
Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs.
It turns out that if someone enters the e-mail address of a Facebook user along with the wrong password, Facebook returns a special "Please re-enter your password" page, which includes the Facebook photo and full name of the person associated with the address.
The feature helps people understand if they've mistyped their e-mail address at login, but it could be misused by spammers to get information on Facebook's 500 million users.
Support for multitouch on Windows 7 computers and cross-platform improvements to how the browser handles JavaScript were the biggest changes brought by Mozilla to the third beta of Firefox 4, released Wednesday. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Firefox 4 beta 3 doesn't make any changes to the interface but does make some important adjustments to how the browser handles JavaScript, an essential component of modern browsers.
The new beta adjusts how C++ represents JavaScript, which will allow Firefox to run numeric-heavy code more efficiently. In a blog post announcing the new version,...
Apple today patched the two vulnerabilities used to jailbreak Apple's newest iOS 4 operating system, bugs that security researchers warned could be used to hijack iPhones, iPod Touches or iPads.
The patches came just 10 days after a group published a site that automatically exploited and then jailbroke any iOS 4 device that used the mobile Safari browser to surf to jailbreakme.com.
Last week, one prominent iPhone vulnerability researcher called the exploit -- which was actually a two-stage hack -- both "sweet" and "scary."
Also last week, other...
Some users are hot at Microsoft over snafus in the new Hotmail that have locked them out of their accounts, blocked them from viewing mail or kept them from accessing contacts.
Microsoft started rolling out a revamp of its Windows Live Hotmail in mid-June, and said it had completed the upgrade for 350 million users earlier this month.
But since late July, complaints spiked dramatically on the free Web-based e-mail service's support forum.
Some of the threads on Microsoft's support forum have also been heavily redacted, with numerous messages now labeled only with...
Microsoft on Tuesday warned customers that a record number of just-patched bugs will probably be exploited in the next 30 days.
Of the 35 vulnerabilities that Microsoft has patched this month, it assigned 32 an exploitability rating, a score that quantifies the company's take on whether reliable attack code will appear. Of the 32 bugs, a record 18 were pegged with a rating of "1," which in Microsoft's methodology means it anticipates reliable exploit code in the coming month.
Microsoft also assigned nine of Tuesday's 14 security updates the same "1" exploitability...
Samsung has brought out its first portable Blu-ray 3D player, as well as 3D TVs priced starting at $1,099, in an effort to make 3D products accessible to buyers.
The BD-C8000 player allows users to watch full high-definition movies on the go, or to watch 3D movies when connected to a 3D TV, said John Revie, Samsung senior vice president of home entertainment, at a press event in New York.
The portable player has a 10.3-inch screen and built-in Wi-Fi. It runs about three hours on batteries and connects to 3D TVs via an HDMI 1.4a port. The HDMI specification allows for content...
Indian government officials plan to meet on Thursday with mobile operators to discuss access to BlackBerry data, according to informed sources.
Home Ministry Spokesman Onkar Kedia confirmed that G.K. Pillai, the home secretary, would be meeting with operators, but said he did not know whether a shutdown of Research in Motion's ban BlackBerry service is being considered.
Analysts say the meeting will be an opportunity for the Indian government to press service providers that they must give security agencies the right to intercept communications, including BlackBerry services,...
Researchers at Russian security company Kaspersky Lab say they've discovered the first malicious software program to target Google's Android mobile operating system.
The application masquerades as a media player, according to a Kaspersky blog post. But if it is installed, the rogue application begins secretly sending SMSes (Short Message Service) to a premium rate number presumably belonging to the hackers who created it.
There have been isolated cases of spyware programs that run on the Android platform, an open-source mobile operating system created by Google. But the fake...
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