Adobe allow connecting Flash and AIR to smartphones
Adobe has introduced its new product: Flash Media Gateway. The latter offers the possibility to Flash and AIR applications to be compatible with the telecommunications systems that use SIP.
Enough to open the door to many new applications to perform operations conferencing or instant messaging for example.
AIR 2.5 available and compatible w/ Android, iOS
Adobe, at MAX 2010 conference, announced the launch of version 2.5 of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and a set of tools for its preview versions based on flash. This readiness is clearly the tools to modernize and adapt to different mobile devices, tablets and other new-generation TV.
The company has launched the preview of the new versions of the Flex framework, its IDE Flash Builder and his graphic design software "Flash Catalyst."
Version 2.5 of Adobe AIR embeds the Flash Player 10.1. It can read data from the accelerometer, GPS, and manage the camera, microphone and multi-touch screens.
It also supports hardware acceleration on a variety of mobile processors and can cache application data for use in offline mode.
Adobe AIR now work (in addition to previously supported platforms) Android, Ios and on the shelf "BlackBerry Playbook" RIM.
Source : Adobe AIR blog
First malware to practice overwrite discovered hidden in an Adobe Updater
A malicious code has been spotted for the first time by computer security experts.
Indeed, researchers have discovered a malware that replaces the updates to certain applications. Usually, such programs do not overwrite practice.
Only computers running Windows are affected. The malware hides in the form of an updater for Adobe products or Java. A variant mimics Adobe Reader v.9 and overwrite AdobeUpdater.exe, which aims to connect regularly to the Adobe servers to check if a new version is available.
Once installed on a warm machine, the malware opens a client DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), DNS (Domain Name System), a network share, and a port to receive commands.
According to an expert at Trend Micro, good antivirus should detect this threat. It also states that infected computers will be altered even after uninstalling the malware, because they will lose the auto-update any infected software, exposing the machine has other threats if patches can not then be quickly installed (because of this defect). It will indeed users victim of these malicious codes, start to download updates to their hand, what some will do or will not want to do.
Source : Nguyen Cong Cuong's blog (Security analyst)
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