Two flaws have been discovered in Macromedia's Flash Player that could leave PCs open to attack. Macromedia has warned that its Flash Player, a ubiquitous application for playing multimedia files, has a vulnerability that could allow attackers to...
An attacker could create a hand-edited Macromedia Flash, or SWF, file that can compromise a PC or Macintosh if its user views the file with the Shockwave Flash Player plug-in for Internet Explorer, Netscape or other browsers.
Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo will become the first phone carrier to offer services based on Macromedia's Flash animation player. With the new version of Flash, however, Macromedia began eyeing a bigger territory, positioning the Flash player as...
Key motivators for them have been the small file size of the Flash Player client and its ability to deliver sophisticated visual presentations over low-bandwidth connections, Macromedia CEO Rob Burgess said.
Known as Breeze 5, the Web conferencing tool unveiled on Monday is the company's latest effort to expand the range of applications supported by its Macromedia Flash Player software, which it claims has now been downloaded more than 500 million times.
More than 98 percent of personal computers connected to the Web have some version of the Flash player installed, according to Macromedia, and more than 100 equipment manufacturers are building Flash into their devices.