Beating their own deadline set 6 days ago to have the latest Flash vulnerability patched in Acrobat X and Acrobat/Reader 8 & 9 by the week of April 25th, Adobe released Acrobat 10.0.3 (.pdf) and Acrobat/Reader 9.4.4 (.pdf) today. Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh … [Read more...]
Take Your Sync-ed Files With You With Dropbox Portable
Dropbox is a service that I've recommended before which is useful for syncing files from your desktop to the cloud (free, up to 2GB of storage) and access to your files wherever you are could easily become something you start taking for granted. Dropbox has official apps for Android and iPhone so you can synchronize files to your smartphone. There's also the web interface that … [Read more...]
Miro Video Player – VLC Meets iTunes For Internet Videos
Miro, the manager and player for internet videos, torrents, and podcasts, has been around for a while, formerly known as Democracy Player and DTV. Miro comes from the Participatory Culture Foundation which has had another one of its projects, Universal Subtitles, featured on 404 Tech Support before. Miro is a free video downloader, player, and organizer. In a nutshell, it just … [Read more...]
(Another) Update To Adobe Flash Addresses Latest 0-Day Vulnerability
Adobe announced in a security advisory Monday that a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash was actively being exploited with credit and more details going to Mila Parkour. News of the vulnerability was broken by Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security who reported: According to sources, the attacks exploit a vulnerability in fully-patched versions of Flash, and are being leveraged … [Read more...]
Firefox 5 And the Missing Status Bar
Update: Applicable to Firefox 4 and Firefox 5. Firefox 4 came with quite an interface change, seeming to grow closer and closer to Chrome. Tabs changed location, buttons moved around, and the status bar disappeared... or did it? Mozilla seems to have received enough inquiries about the missing status bar that they've written up a knowledge base article to explain it. If you're … [Read more...]