[LINK] Adobe Flash problems

2014-02-06 Thread Jan Whitaker
This article says Adobe has issued a patch for Flash and to update your browser, specifically naming Firefox and Opera as afterthoughts, but still, mentioned. http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/adobe-issues-emergency-flash-patch-20140205-hvbf0.html Problem is, when you say update

Re: [LINK] Adobe Flash problems

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jan Whitaker jw...@janwhitaker.com wrote: Problem is, when you say update add-ons in Firefox, the result is a report that everything is up to date, including Flash, which was last updated 1 October 2013. There have been multiple updates to Flash since October

Re: [LINK] Adobe Flash problems

2014-02-06 Thread Roger Clarke
At 17:19 -0500 6/2/14, Scott Howard wrote: If you are still on a version from October then you should update ASAP - You can check your actual version of Flash and get the latest from http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ - simply install it over the top of your existing version and it will

Re: [LINK] Adobe Flash problems

2014-02-06 Thread Rick Welykochy
Roger Clarke wrote: But what's the second-party exposure like these days? As in, is Flash still spyware? I hope that Linkers are informed about the Flash cookie mechanism. Flash cookies are much more powerful than the cookies used in your browser. In the latter, you can disaable third party

[LINK] Have your say - the Whole of Government Desktop Panel review

2014-02-06 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
via twitter... The Whole of Government Desktop Hardware and Associated Services Panel (“the Panel”) has been established since October 2010. The term of the Panel was for 3 years with two options to extend for 12 months each. The first option to extend was exercised and the current term

Re: [LINK] Adobe Flash problems - update fails with OS X Lion and above

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca wrote: The latest one for my Mac running OS X is this: *install_flash_player_osx-***12.0.0.44*.dmg* which is amusing, since their emergency bulletin mentioned that the update is to version *12.0.0.43. *In the time between