CyberSECURITY July, 7th 2011 by admin

Adobe patches second Flash zero-day in 9 days

“For the second time in nine days, Adobe on Tuesday patched a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers were already exploiting.

Adobe also updated its popular Reader PDF viewer to quash 13 new bugs and several older ones the company had not gotten around to fixing.”

Source: Adobe patches second Flash zero-day in 9 days | Computerworld New Zealand

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