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Apple ships first OS X 10.5 Leopard security update in almost 12 months
Apple has issued its first security-related update for OS X 10.5 Leopard in nearly a year, to disable long-outdated versions of Adobe's Flash Player.
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Adobe's security chief praises Apple for outdated Flash-crippling move
Adobe's head of security is applauding Apple's move to block outdated versions of his company's Flash Player.
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Adobe u-turn promises free security patches for Creative Suite
Adobe is to issue free security patches for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash Professional--the company's high-profile Creative Suite applications. The U-turn reverses an attempt to force users to pay for a CS6 upgrade in order to rectify the problems. The security vulnerabilities affected both Mac and Windows platforms.
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iOS surpasses Android in BYOD enterprise usage, study says
Consumerisation trends in the enterprise shifted dramatically in the first quarter of 2012, with mobile devices running Apple's iOS operating system showing more activity in the workplace than those running Google's Android, as well as end users migrating from Facebook and to Twitter.
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Apple patches Safari, blocks outdated Flash Player
Apple has patched four security vulnerabilities in Safari and blocked outdated versions of Adobe's Flash Player from running in its browser.
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Zero-day Flash bug patched by Adobe in emergency update
Adobe has warned that hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in its popular Flash Player program, and issued an emergency update to patch the bug.
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RIM demos new BlackBerry 10 mobile OS, impressing programmers, users
RIM today gave a brief demonstration of its new mobile OS on an early prototype handset. And both represent a dramatic break from RIM's traditional BlackBerry heritage.
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Facebook teams up with Microsoft, McAfee, Symantec to sell antivirus
Facebook promotes the products as "free", however some, such as Symantec's Norton and McAfee, similar to pre-installed desktop antivirus trial versions, must be paid for after 6 months, while Microsoft's Security Essentials for Windows and Sophos'Home Edition for Macs are actually free products.
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Apple, Adobe, Intel and Google face lawsuit on salary 'fixing'
Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe are accused of agreeing not to poach each others staff, therefore holding back career development and suppressing pay.
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Twitter spammers infect users with fake antivirus programs
A large spam campaign observed on Twitter during the last couple of days directed users to malicious websites that exploited vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to infect their computers with rogue antivirus programs, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab.
