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...
Adobe has issued three critical security updates, one of which is designed to stop a problem in the way the Flash player interacts with browsers, which could result in users' keystrokes being transmitted to attackers.
IT professionals have been warned to patch vulnerabilities in the Adobe Flash Player application and Sun Java Runtime Environment as soon as possible. The Adobe update addresses an input validation error in Flash Player version 9.0.45.0 and earlier...
AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) would allow start-up companies to develop their own web-based applications which could rival Microsoft Office. Adobe's Flash Player is widely used on the web and AIR lets web developers create desktop applications.
The updated Flash Player will also be able to take advantage of hardware acceleration in most PCs' graphics cards and is optimised for dual-core processors, said Mark Randall, chief strategist for dynamic media at Adobe.
The technology underpinning these applications is Adobe's Flash Player and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), software that lets web applications run offline. Adobe invested in the company last year as part of a venture fund set up to promote...