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• Adobe patches Flash again, but not the flaws exploited at Pwn2Own

  13.03.2013

  As promised last year, Adobe has been issuing its scheduled Flash updates on the second Tuesday of each month - the same day that Microsoft chose for its monthly Patch Tuesday.

• Pwn2Own ends with Adobe Flash, Reader and Oracle Java exploits

  08.03.2013

  Day two of the Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest was again successful for French Vupen security, as they succeeded in exploiting Adobe Flash on Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 by chaining together three zero-days (an overflow, a ASLR bypass technique and a IE9 sandbox memory corruption) and earning themselves another $70,000.

• Safari now blocks all but latest version of Flash plugin

  04.03.2013

  With all the Flash Player and Java zero-day vulnerabilities lately getting exploited in attacks, browser vendors are trying to come up with solutions to protect their users without antagonizing them with lengthy hoop-jumping.

• Fake Flash Player download pages pushing malware

  27.02.2013

  As you may already heard, Adobe has pushed out an update for Flash Player that fixes vulnerabilities discovered to be currently exploited in the wild in targeted attacks.

• Adobe patches Flash again as Firefox users are under attack

  27.02.2013

  Adobe is urging users to update their Flash Player for the third time this month, as once again the company is aware of vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks.

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