Adobe Reader 10.1.4 was released today to address a number of vulnerabilities that could cause application crashes and allow attacker control. Users of Adobe Reader X and Acrobat X are encouraged to update to today's release of 10.1.4. Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.5.1 were also updated to version 9.5.2. … [Read more...]

Office 2013, or the "new Office", or the "next Office", will be adding two new formats for full open, edit, and save capabilities. In addition, its PDF support will be evolving to gain open and "edit" capabilities. While ODF might be more readily associated with software packages like OpenOffice, Microsoft has contributed technical expertise to recent versions of the standard. … [Read more...]

Steam users were put in a world of hurt yesterday morning when an antivirus definitions update to Avast Antivirus moved Steam .dll files to the quarantine directory and caused Steam to crash. Depending on how you responded to the false positive, it could result in having to reinstall Steam and any of the games in your library you want access to. Shortly after the bad update, … [Read more...]

Late last week, Adobe announced an update to its Flash Player product for Windows only. Flash Player was updated from 11.3.300.268 to 11.3.300.270. The minor update addresses a crash with the Adobe Flash Player Update Service (FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe). The update, however, is not available from Adobe's Product Download Center. … [Read more...]

Mozilla has launched version 14.0.1 of its Firefox browser. The notable changes include security fixes, bug fixes, and small feature optimizations all around. … [Read more...]