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If you are unaware of this recently published Adobe Flash Player exploit, you need to update your version of the player in all browsers on all operating systems now. Here is Adobe's support bulletin, which includes instructions on how. This is not just a Windows exploit, or an Internet Explorer exploit; it exists in all versions of Flashplayer and allows execution of arbitrary code. So far, only demonstration code is known to exist, so you have a window of opportunity to get your systems patched before Russian mobsters are p0wning your box.
If you don't know whether you have Flash player installed, you almost certainly do. If you've ever been to Homestar Runner to read Strongbad Email, for example, and seen anything at all, you have Flash player.
If you don't know whether you have Flash player installed, you almost certainly do. If you've ever been to Homestar Runner to read Strongbad Email, for example, and seen anything at all, you have Flash player.
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Date: 2008-04-17 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-17 01:01 am (UTC)eta: oh heh? would it be okay to borrow that snaggle-tooted icon?
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Date: 2008-04-17 04:31 am (UTC)Also, you, like everyone, should read A Miracle of Science: I ♥ it.
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Date: 2008-04-17 12:16 pm (UTC)thank you very much. as çayani sriþun go you are definitely okay.
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Date: 2008-04-17 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-17 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-17 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-17 01:09 am (UTC)Good luck with getting all your users updated.... I know I've a few chores ahead of me.... *sigh*
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Date: 2008-04-17 03:26 am (UTC)kekeke
Thanks for the warning!
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Date: 2008-04-17 03:57 am (UTC)I have actually read the 26-page exploit report published by IBM's X division. It's quite scary. Anyone with a mind that twisted should not be allowed loose on the streets.
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Date: 2008-04-17 04:23 am (UTC)So did I. That is a most righteous piece of hackery. I am very happy that Mark Dowd is a white-hat.
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Date: 2008-04-17 01:45 pm (UTC)Wish I had the dosh to sponsor an X-Prize for the development of a robust, secure, solar-rechargeable, portable personal satcomm unit -- an ansible without (sigh) quite the zero latency expected of ansibles.
Also wish I lived on Mars. But wait, we do, sort of....
Now have that part of IBM webspace bookmarked for future reference. Once again, yayness upon them.
Angharad
red-hat, as evidenced by intel photos from China, summer 2007