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Flash in Windows 8: the good, the bad and the ugly

08

Dec

2012

Last week I described how Chrome and Firefox are protecting users against vulnerable plugins, Flash and Java amongst them, with Click to Play. Microsoft has a different approach with Windows 8 when it comes to protecting users against attack using the Flash plugin. Embedded Flash Player Windows 8 ships with its own version of Flash. […]

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Patch Tuesday September 2011

14

Sep

2011

This month’s Microsoft patch release is pushed out with lower urgency recommendations overall. While the Sharepoint and server side vulnerabilities are interesting, IT and individuals should attend to the Excel vulnerabilities with urgency. Microsoft is also putting to bed any issues related to Diginotar certificate trust by adding cross signed Diginotar root certificates to the […]

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How to mitigate the “Supercookies”

23

Aug

2011

“Supercookies” (Local Shared Object), or flash cookies as they are otherwise commonly called, and their implication on the privacy of Internet users have been a hot topic in the security- news blogs lately. ‘Cookies‘, as most of you already know, are small text files that are used to keep small pieces of browsing information stored […]

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