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Facebook Switches From Adobe Flash Player to HTML5 Player

Posted by Melissa Davidson
|Date: December 21, 2015
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Facebook Switches From Adobe Flash Player to HTML5 Player

Facebook has officially moved all of its video players for all Internet Browsers from the security plague ...

Facebook has officially moved all of its video players for all Internet Browsers from the security plagued Adobe Flash to HTML5. This is a big change not only for security but also for usability and s ...

December 21, 2015
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FBI and Microsoft Takes Down Global DorkBot Malware Botnet

Posted by James Anderson
|Date: December 07, 2015
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FBI and Microsoft Takes Down Global DorkBot Malware Botnet

Microsoft and the FBI had great success with taking down a global botnet ring called "Dorkbot". The autho ...

Microsoft and the FBI had great success with taking down a global botnet ring called "Dorkbot". The authorities along with Microsoft has been tracking Dorkbot for more than four years and the network ...

December 07, 2015
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Stagefright 2.0 Exploit Affects Millions of Android Devices

Posted by James Anderson
|Date: October 02, 2015
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Stagefright 2.0 Exploit Affects Millions of Android Devices

While Google is still working to get the recently announced Stagefright vulnerability fixed across all of ...

While Google is still working to get the recently announced Stagefright vulnerability fixed across all of its operating systems, a second Stagefright vulnerability has now been discovered affecting mi ...

October 02, 2015
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Microsoft Acquires Security Cloud Firm Adallom

Posted by James Anderson
|Date: September 16, 2015
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Microsoft Acquires Security Cloud Firm Adallom

Microsoft has announced that they have acquired advance identity and security cloud firm, Adallom which h ...

Microsoft has announced that they have acquired advance identity and security cloud firm, Adallom which helps clients protect their critical assets in the cloud. The move to sweep up Adallom should al ...

September 16, 2015
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Russian Hackers Used Steganography Techniques to Breach Companies

Posted by James Anderson
|Date: July 29, 2015
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Russian Hackers Used Steganography Techniques to Breach Companies

A Russian hacker group utilized a process called steganography to hide messages within photos on Github. ...

A Russian hacker group utilized a process called steganography to hide messages within photos on Github. Meanwhile, infected machines were given specific instructions to check different Twitter accoun ...

July 29, 2015
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Twitch Joins YouTube and Moves to HTML5 Video Player

Posted by James Anderson
|Date: July 23, 2015
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Twitch Joins YouTube and Moves to HTML5 Video Player

Twitch, an online video streaming service, today announced that they have dropped Adobe Flash in favor of ...

Twitch, an online video streaming service, today announced that they have dropped Adobe Flash in favor of HTML 5 and JavaScript to stream their videos on its web site. Why switch now? Well, over the p ...

July 23, 2015
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Two Additional Adobe Flash Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Posted by James Anderson
|Date: July 13, 2015
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Two Additional Adobe Flash Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Adobe has been very hard at work the last couple of months due to vulnerabilities in its Flash product. J ...

Adobe has been very hard at work the last couple of months due to vulnerabilities in its Flash product. Just off the heels of one Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability that was discovered as part of the ...

July 13, 2015
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