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Mozilla temporarily disables Flash Player interactivity within Firefox, cites recently discovered exploits

If you haven’t updated your version of Adobe Flash Player lately, now might be the time to do it. The developers at Mozilla, having noticed that the staff at Hacking Team had three working exploits for Adobe Flash, decided to block all versions of the Flash Player plugin up to version 18.0.0.203 on Windows. Mozilla […]

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Adobe pushes Flash Player 18.0.0.194, cites security vulnerabilities in previous versions

As useful as it may be, Adobe is still putting out fires with Flash Player. The company issued a security update for its Flash Player on OS X, Windows, and Linux. In the bulletin, it cited that this update addresses a critical security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain control and take over […]

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iPhone accounting for almost 90% of smartphone industry profits in fourth quarter report

If nothing else, the iPhone industry is profitable for Apple. The latest numbers from Strategy Analytics reveal that Apple continued to dominate in global smartphone profit during the fourth quarter of 2014, capturing a record-high 88.7 percent share of profit during the three-month period ending December. Apple earned quarterly operating profit of US$18.8 billion on […]

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YouTube begins transition from Flash to HTML5, shows signs of the times

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like Flash is finally on its way out. Or at least YouTube will be helping it on its way out as it converts over to HTML5. Per Macworld, five years after Google introduced HTML5 video as an option on YouTube, Google’s popular video site now defaults […]

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Apple releases Safari 8.0.2 update

It’s not a huge update, but it helps. On Friday, Apple released version 8.0.2 of its Safari web browser. The new version, a 53.8 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Fixes an issue that could prevent history from syncing across devices if iCloud Drive is not on. • – Fixes an issue […]