Adobe releases patches for Flash Player and Shockwave Player
Adobe released security updates for Flash Player and Shockwave Player on Tuesday in order to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two products. New stand-alone versions of Flash Player 11 were released for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The Flash Player plug-ins bundled with Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10 will be automatically updated through the update mechanisms of the two browsers.
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Yahoo aims to strengthen mobile presence with Alike buy Yahoo is bidding to strengthen its presence in the increasingly important mobile space with the acquisition of Alike, a location discovery app. The move comes as Yahoo faces rising pressure to stay relevant and offer mobile products for consumers as it struggles to compete against Google, Facebook, and other social networks. Read More ...
DaVinci surveillance malware distributed via zero-day Flash Player exploit, researchers say Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install a so-called lawful interception program designed for law enforcement use, security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab said Tuesday. Read More ...
Software developers expected to see the highest IT job growth come 2020 There are around 4.16 million IT professionals working in the United States today, and that number is expected to grow by 22 percent through 2020, according to research company CompTIA. Most of those new jobs will be geared toward software development, while computer engineering jobs will remain in relatively short supply. Read More ...
NewsGator plans to uncouple its enterprise social suite from SharePoint NewsGator is re-architecting its Social Sites ESN (enterprise social networking) suite so that it can be installed independently of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server. The decision isn't terribly surprising, given that Microsoft last summer bought NewsGator competitor Yammer for $1.2 billion and has ambitious plans to deeply integrate Yammer with SharePoint and other Microsoft products, like Office and Dynamics CRM. However, this decision is a big technology and strategy shift for NewsGator. Read More ...
PaaS primer: What is platform as a service and why does it matter? Even most nontechies probably have an idea of what cloud computing is by now, but when you start getting into IaaS vs. SaaS vs. PaaS even those of us in the industry can struggle. Read More ...
Apple CEO shoots down idea of inexpensive iPhone Apple will not create a new, inexpensive iPhone just for the sake of offering a cheaper alternative, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a speech on Tuesday. The company's focus is on creating great products, and it will not make a smartphone that does not past the quality test, Cook said during a webcast from the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference, which is being held in San Francisco. Read More ...
Discount sparks demand for Surface tablets There's been a lot of talk in the tech press this week about demand for Microsoft's Surface Pro: Why did the supply of 128GB Surface Pro machi Read More ...
Mobile malware still small, but 'malnets' to rise up Mobile device operating systems are still more secure than those of desktop or laptop computers. But today's mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly be delivered via mobile malware networks. Read More ...
McAfee enhances business security management platform McAfee is enhancing its business security platform by adding near real-time querying capabilities to its ePolicy Orchestrator software and by integrating it with its security information and event management (SIEM) product to automatically initiate endpoint security policy changes. Read More ...
IT sites more targeted by malware than sex sites, report says It's long been a tactic by cyber criminals to load up compromised websites with malware-laden links to snare victims, but instead of it being the sex sites as of old, the favored type of website now is for information technology, according to analysis in the Websense threat report out today. Read More ...
VMware buys virtual storage company Virsto VMware is rounding out its new "software-defined data center" strategy with the acquisition of virtual storage company Virsto Software. Read More ...
HPCC takes on Hadoop's big data dominance When you hear the expression "big data," the next word you will often hear is "Hadoop." That's because the underlying technology that has made massive amounts of data accessible is based on the open source Apache Hadoop project. From the outside looking in, you would rightly assume then that Hadoop is big data and vice versa; that without one the other cannot be. But there is a Hadoop competitor that in many ways is more mature and enterprise-ready: High Performance Computing Cluster. Read More ...
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