Information Protection and Security

It's true that Adobe is getting better at the security game, but they've far from proven themselves. It's also possible that service providers can play some role in forcing users to apply updates, although there's no real sign of that yet.
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Mozilla has expanded on the plans they acknowledged yesterday to check the version of Flash you are running to make sure that it's not outdated.
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Most users haven't fixed their Acrobat Reader apps two weeks after Adobe issued critical patch, Trusteer says.
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UC Berkeley researchers who exposed how the net’s top sites use a little-known feature of Flash to track users can proudly notch their belts: Quantcast, one of the largest online tracking and traffic-measuring companies, has stopped using so-called Flash cookies to rebuild cookies that users intentionally deleted.
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A confusing but disturbing advisory from Adobe describes a highly critical vulnerability in the Shockwave Player. A new version of the player, 11.5.0.600, has been issued to address the problem.
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