Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, ColdFusion

Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, ColdFusion
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IDG News Service – Adobe Systems released security updates for Flash Player, AIR and ColdFusion to fix critical vulnerabilities that could allow
attackers to take control of affected systems or read information from servers without authorization.

The updates for Flash Player and Adobe AIR, an Internet rich application runtime with Flash support, fix two memory corruption
vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution.

Adobe recommends that users update to Flash Player version 11.9.900.152 for Windows and Mac and version 11.2.202.327 for Linux.
The Flash Player version bundled with Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 11 on Windows
8.1 will be automatically updated through the update mechanisms of those browsers, the company said in an advisory.

Windows, Mac and Android users of Adobe AIR and Adobe AIR SDK (software development kit) should update to version 3.9.0.1210
of those programs.

Adobe also released security hotfixes for versions 10, 9.0.2, 9.0.1 and 9.0 of its ColdFusion application server. Those patches address a critical vulnerability
that could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to read information from a vulnerable server and a reflected cross-site
scripting (XSS) whose exploitation requires authentication.

ColdFusion servers have been targeted by attackers in the past. In January, Adobe warned customers that attackers were exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in ColdFusion and in April hackers broke into the management servers and customer database of Linode, a virtual private server hosting
firm, by exploiting a previously unknown ColdFusion vulnerability.

Adobe is not aware of any exploits or attacks that are actively targeting the vulnerabilities fixed in the new security updates
and does not believe the vulnerabilities are related to the theft of source code the company announced at the beginning of
October, Adobe spokeswoman Heather Edell said via email.

On Oct. 3, Adobe announced that hackers broke into its internal network and stole the source code of Adobe Acrobat, ColdFusion, ColdFusion Builder and other products. Security researchers said
at the time that the source code leak might help attackers find vulnerabilities in the affected products.

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.

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With Launch Of 3.0, Adobe Social Supports Instagram, LinkedIn, And More, Plus Predictive Capabilities

Adobe says version 3.0 of Adobe Social, its set of tools for social marketing, is going live right now.

When I met with Bill Ingram, vice president of product management for digital marketing, and Emi Hofmeister, senior manager of product marketing, they said Adobe Social is part of a larger effort to revamp Adobe’s marketing products. Last year, they conducted surveys about how the company was doing, and they discovered, as paraphrased by Ingram, that “we’re kind of hard to do business with.”

One reason: With 26 different products (and that’s just on the marketing side), it was hard to know what to buy. So Adobe consolidated the line down to five core products — Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Media Optimizer, and yes, Adobe Social, which launched last fall. (If less than a year doesn’t seem like enough time to reach version 3.0, that’s because the version that came out last fall was technically considered Adobe Social 2.0. Because reasons.)

As for what’s actually new, Adobe Social now includes support for Flickr, Foursquare, Instagram, and LinkedIn. (That’s on top of previous support for Facebook, Google+, Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter.) The new integrations include full access to Foursquare’s firehouse of data and the ability to both publish to and analyze from LinkedIn Pages and Groups.

In addition, the predictive publishing capabilities that were announced back in April have gone live, giving publishers tips about what kind of social media content they should publish and when so that they can improve their engagement. And it uses the new interface for the Adobe Marketing Cloud, which makes it easy for different teams to collaborate across Adobe’s various marketing products.

To illustrate the new experience, Hofmeister took me through an example. As a hypothetical online publisher, she spotted a trending topic, formulated a post on that topic linking to a relevant article, looked at the full calendar of scheduled posts, scheduled the post for an empty slot, got a recommendation for a better time to publish, then scheduled her post.

Thanks to new “parent-child” authoring capabilities, she was able to just write one post and push it to all social networks, customizing as necessary. And then, of course, she could track whether that post was to driving the results that she was interested in and use that data to do better next time.

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With Launch Of 3.0, Adobe Social Supports Instagram, LinkedIn, And More, Plus Predictive Capabilities