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Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update

Adobe issued its first regularly-scheduled security updates on Tuesday, fixing at least 13 critical flaws reported by outside researchers and secretly patching an unspecified number of bugs found by its own team.

| News | Security | 06/10/09 at 8:30 am |


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Adobe will deliver its first quarterly patches next Tuesday

Adobe Systems will deliver its first set of quarterly patches next Tuesday as the company seeks to improve how it responds to security vulnerabilities in its widely used products.

| News | Security | Software | 06/05/09 at 8:15 am |


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Facing criticism, Adobe rethinks PDF security

Blasted three months ago for being slow to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its popular PDF viewer, Adobe today promised it will root out bugs in older code, speed up the patching process and release regular security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat.

| News | Security | 05/20/09 at 7:50 pm |


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Patch Adobe's PDF bug pronto, expert urges

While Microsoft's PowerPoint patch received lots of attention, the Adobe Reader update should be at the top of people's to-do list, a security expert said today.

| News | Security | 05/14/09 at 3:23 pm |


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Adobe promises patch for zero-day PDF bug by next Tuesday

Adobe has promised to patch the newest zero-day vulnerability in its popular Adobe Reader software no later than next Tuesday, potentially adding another update to the month's busiest patch day for the second time in three months.

| News | Security | 05/05/09 at 8:37 pm |


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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
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