A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

Adobe has released another critical update for Flash. It will become hard for networkadministrators to organise this because you should try first to get the old installation not only away but that your users won't install the old one because some website makes them think that otherwise they won't see the game or joke.

Adobe says the fault is not with them but with javascript and that they are attacked because the browsers are being hardened (and luckily so). Adobe should never have abandoned its stupid but secure documentformat. Or they should relaunch it. A document format without any metatags, scripts or macro. A document format that is just what a document is : a document, not a presentation. The indexation can be done by other software that is more suited for that.

Most antivirus will not detect the infections. They will try to call a javascript, so maybe you can stop them by surfing in safe mode or noscript although I am not sure, just a thought.

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?prom... and don't install the Google toolbar, that would be another thing with vulnerabilities alongside the road

But do you think that Adobe will make its public aware that there are security problems with their software. You are kiddin'. And than they are surprised that they are an ideal attack platform - just like Apple will become. You have users that don't think about security and you have developers that get each upgrade even more functions (and so more code and so more vulnerabilities).

Do you see security news somewhere here ?

Do you see some mention of security update here ?

the word security is just as with apple tabou and so they are themselves responsable for the waves of attacks that are happening against their software.

Your users are your first and last firewall.... if you educate them

In the phishing post you will some examples of sites being set up to fool users with codecs and flash and pdf infected files.