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Apple drops from first to fifth place in Laptop Mag’s annual survey

In as much as you may love your Apple notebook, Apple’s wares seem to be on the decline according to Laptop Mag. The publication, which has awarded Apple the top spot in its annual survey since 2010, placed Apple’s notebooks at fifth place alongside Acer but behind Lenovo, Asus, Dell and HP. The magazine had […]

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Apple patches “Fruitfly” malware, which relied on pre-OS X system calls

Apple appears to have nixed the “Fruitfly” malware strain. The malware, which has been patched over, relied on antiquated code predating OS X. Although older, the Fruitfly malware had been used in real-world attacks on biomedical research groups according to security software maker Malwarebytes. Fruitfly operated by communicating with two command-and-control servers, and can perform […]

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Adobe updates Flash Player to version 21.0.0.213, works to patch new vulnerability (updated)

As useful as Adobe’s Flash Player tends to be, this is sort of a mess. Less than a month after a critical Flash vulnerability allowed an attacker to take control of a Mac, Adobe has issued an emergency update for yet another critical flaw, bringing the current version to 21.0.0.213. The latest one is already […]

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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 […]