• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-08-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Adobe patches actively exploited Flash Player vulnerability in 24 flaw fix

Adobe Systems released a security update for Flash Player to fix 24 critical vulnerabilities, including one that hackers have been exploiting to infect computers with ransomware over the past week. The company advised users Thursday to upgrade to t... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-08-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The latest Flash zero-day was used to spread Cerber ransomware

The latest zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Systems’ Flash player has been used over the last two weeks to distribute ransomware called Cerber, email security vendor Proofpoint said.Adobe said it would patch the flaw, CVE-2016-1019, on Thursday. The vulnerability affects all versions […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-08-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The latest Flash zero-day was used to spread Cerber ransomware

The latest zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Systems’ Flash player has been used over the last two weeks to distribute ransomware called Cerber, email security vendor Proofpoint said.Adobe said it would patch the flaw, CVE-2016-1019, on Thursday. The vulnerability affects all versions […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-07-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on White House won’t support encryption unlocking legislation

President Barack Obama’s administration won’t support legislation to force device makers to help law enforcement agencies defeat encryption, according to a news report.
Two senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have been floating draft legislation to require device makers and […]

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