More ammo for complaints of Adobe Acrobat getting bloated: by including Flash inside of PDFs, whenever a vulnerability with Adobe Flash is found it means a Flash update is required and then a week or two later, Adobe Reader and Acrobat also need to be updated. Today, those Reader and Acrobat updates hit the wire. They were previously announced that they would be coming sometime … [Read more...]
See What Somebody Printed By Listening
Here's an eye-opener that is very interesting as well as creepy. Researchers have demonstrated how they can place a microphone next to a dot-matrix printer and translate the sounds the printer makes into what was printed, making it possible to spy on the resultant document without ever seeing it. Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Printers We examine the problem of acoustic … [Read more...]
How Your Car’s Tire Pressure Monitoring System Could Allow You To Be Tracked and Hacked
Many modern vehicles (2008 or newer) have a Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) that alerts the driver when the tire pressure is getting low. In fact, it's required for all new vehicles in the US following legislation that was prompted by the 2000 Firestone tire issue. For my car, that means this little orange light comes on to tell me if a tire reports that it is low on air … [Read more...]
Adobe Flash Player, ColdFusion, and Flash Media Server Updates Come Out Of Nowhere
Adobe provided updates to Adobe Flash Player, ColdFusion, and Adobe Flash Media Server today to address critical and important severity security issues. Oddly, these seem to have come out of the blue. I'm usually able to stay on top of these things but I was caught off-guard by this update. So here I am, passing along the info so that more people update to protect their … [Read more...]
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Out-Of-Band Update Coming Week of August 16th
Yesterday a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability in Adobe Reader that allows malicious code to be executed.[1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/04/critical_adobe_reader_vuln/ ] The vulnerability has been confirmed by Adobe's senior director of product security and privacy. "Key to the decision is determining whether there are enough details available from Miller's … [Read more...]