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  • Adobe MAX: Publishers discuss DPS SE iPad publishing system

    Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) is being opened up to a whole new user base at Adobe's MAX conference in Los Angeles. The new Single Edition (SE) allows users to publish one-off content such as a brochure, illustrated book, annual report or personal design portfolio as an iPad application. That gives freelance designers access to many of the creative and publishing technologies that major publishers have been using to deliver their publications to tablet devices.

  • Adobe confirms critical Flash zero-day bug

    For the second time in the last four weeks, Adobe has told users that hackers are exploiting an unpatched bug in Flash Player, again by embedding malicious code inside a Microsoft Office document.

  • Adobe patches 42 bugs in Reader, Flash

    Adobe yesterday patched 29 vulnerabilities in Reader, it's PDF viewer, and 13 more in Flash, the popular Web media browser plug-in, as part of an even larger quarterly security update.

  • Adobe Reader: Will new version block hackers or tempt them

    Here's a distinction no software company craves: For two quarters running, Adobe's popular Acrobat and Reader software have been the favorite target of hackers around the globe. According to Symantec's quarterly threat assessment, attacks related to PDF usage accounted for 36 per cent of malicious activity in the most recent quarter and 57 per cent in the preceding three months.

  • Report: Microsoft, Adobe CEOs meet to discuss Apple

    The chief executive officers of Microsoft and Adobe met recently to discuss how best to deal with their common foe -- Apple -- and whether a Microsoft buyout of Adobe might be in the cards, The New York Times reported Thursday.

  • Adobe hits Reader users with 23-patch 'whammy'

    Adobe patched 23 security vulnerabilities in its Reader PDF viewer on Tuesday, most of them critical, including one that has been exploited by hackers for at least a month or possibly much longer.

  • Adobe sounds alarm on Flash zero-day attacks

    Less than a week after warning users that hackers were exploiting an unpatched bug in its Reader PDF viewer, Adobe said on Monday that Flash, its other prominent program, was also under fire.

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