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...]
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...]
Implementing WordPress 3.0 Multisite Functionality
One of the most publicized new features of WordPress 3.0 was the merging of WordPress MU back into the main WordPress development thread. The MU features are expanded upon and are now referred to as 'Multisite'. It makes it possible to host multiple WordPress sites with only one WordPress installation to administer. This sounds great for anybody that might be running multiple … [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...]
Simple Tip: Make Ping ‘Ping!’
The Linux ping utility has an audible option (-a) that just seems to make a lot of sense from a system administration point of view. Ping is typically used to see if the machine your own is connected to the network or if another machine on the network is accessible. If you're working on a system with a network problem, you might be diving under a desk, working behind the … [Read more...]