The file-execution vulnerability, discovered by EEye Digital Security, uses a modified header in a SWF movie file to create a buffer overrun in Flash Player. Macromedia noted that the malformed headers could only be created by hand-editing the file...
And unlike HTML, which lets anyone inspect a web page's underlying source code, Flash movies keep that information under wraps. Macromedia's Flash animation software - .swf - has long had an open file format.
If successful, XDocs would increase the value of Office as an information-generating tool, something more and more businesses are interested in as they increasingly need to wring more productivity out of employees through collaboration and...
The company this month added the capability of letting its developers output Flash movies. Today, analysts expect the upcoming presentation environment in Windows - which includes an XML-based language called XAML (Extensible Application Markup...
A new threat is being posed to computer security, with a warning that Macromedia Flash files can be adjusted to compromise a PC or Mac as long as its user views the file in a web browser - or even an email.
Juha Christensen, who announced his plans to leave Microsoft late last year, will serve as president of Macromedia's new mobile and devices business unit, which is primarily focused on expanding use of Macromedia's Flash format by mobile phone...