Flash Exploit - Got 9.0.124.0 Yet?

April 16, 2008 — FrankFactor

“Reliable Flash vulnerabilities are catastrophes. In 2008, we have lots of different browsers. We have different versions of the OS, and we have Mac users. But we’ve only got one Flash vendor, and everyone has Flash installed. Why do you care about Flash exploits? Because in the field, any one of them wins a commanding majority of browser installs for an attacker.”

http://www.matasano.com/log/1032/this-new-vulnerability-dowds-inhuman-flash-exploit/

Thanks for the good find Jason. Funny review of a potentially serious issue. Time for the the rest of the team leads to recommend version 9.0.124.0 for any clients with internal facing apps?

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-11.html

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Creating Stem Cells from Skin Cells

December 27, 2007 — Clint Modien

Skin-Cell to Stem-Cell Hack Is Like ‘Turning Lead Into Gold’:

In an unprecedented feat of biological alchemy, researchers have turned human skin cells into stem cells that hold the same medical promise as controversial embryonic stem cells. Two teams of researchers — one led by Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka, the other by the University of Wisconsin’s Junying Yu — used a virus to add four new genes to skin cells. Thus transformed, the reprogrammed cells became capable of changing into nearly any cell type in the human body. Embryonic stem cells also have this ability, and may someday be used to cure degenerative diseases, grow new organs and even replace limbs.

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Ribbit makes El Reg

December 22, 2007 — Clint Modien

Ribbit leapfrogs into Web 2.0 | The Register:

Voice 1.0 is so 20th century By Bill Ray → More by this author Published Tuesday 18th December 2007 13:59 GMT Find out how your peers are dealing with Virtualization

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Yahoo Maps: From Flex 1.5 to AJAX

December 18, 2007 — Clint Modien

Ted On Flex: Yahoo Maps: From Flex 1.5 to AJAX:

“Lower’s the flag to half mast.”

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Flash Switcher Extension for Firefox

December 17, 2007 — Clint Modien

Flash Switcher extension for Firefox - sephiroth.it - flash & php:

Flash Switcher extension for Firefox

Preview of Flash SwitcherI just did this new extension (my third extension) for Mozilla firefox. I hope it can be useful for Flash developer who want to easily test their pages with different flash player versions.
The extension hasn’t been approved yet by the Mozilla developer extension team so I decided to make first a post here, also for let you to test it and also because last time they took 3 weeks before they approve an extension…

What is this extension?
This extension comes with all the currently published flash player plugins (from the version 2 to the most recent 9,0,16) and allows you to easily switch from one plugin to another, or also to remove the currently installed plugin (maybe for testing the express install).

Where I can find it?
Once installed you will find the “flash switcher” icon in the Firefox statusbar at right. Click on it and a list of available options will appear.

Can I add more flashplayer versions?
Yes, even if you should do it manually.
The extensionn folder can be found here: 

C:\{userAppData}\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{userProfile}\extensions\{2b5cfade-d133-429c-aea5-865911de4e1d}

Into the “chrome\plugins” folder you will see different folder (such as 9.0 r16, 8.0 r24 etc) with a file NPSWF32.dll within.
To install a new plugin just create a new folder with the name of the player version and copy into it the NPSWF32.dll file which comes with every flash player installer.
You can find all the old flash versions here

Install Flash Switcher Firefox plugin

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Security changes in Flash player 9.0.115.0

December 15, 2007 — Clint Modien

Thought everyone should see this…

Adobe - Developer Center : Security changes in Flash Player 9:

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Changes in behavior due to immediate strictness
  3. Meta-policies
  4. Socket policy files
  5. Workflows
  6. Appendix A: Browser dependencies
  7. Appendix B: Log message reference

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What’s cool about Amazon’s SimpleDB Webservice

December 15, 2007 — Clint Modien

`inside looking out » What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB:

What’s cool about SimpleDB

  • Really large data sets
  • Really Fast
  • Highly Available - It’s Amazon. Running Erlang. Whoa.
  • On demand scaling - Like S3, EC2, with a sensible data metering pricing model
  • Schemaless - major cool factor for me here; items are little hash tables containing sets of key, value pairs

Considerations you’ll want to think about

  • Eventual Consistency - Data is not immediately propagated across all nodes… the latency is usually around a second, but for high data sets or loads, you may experience more latency. On the plus side, your data isn’t lost!
  • Queries are lexigraphical - You’ll need to store data in lexicographical ordered form (zero-pad your integers, add positive offsets to negative integer sets, and convert dates into something like ISO 8601)
  • Search Indexes - You’ll need to construct your own indexes for text search - The SimpleDB query expressions don’t support text search, so you’ll have to construct inverted indexes to properly do “text search”. This is actually a really great lightweight way to do this and I’m sure many interesting indexing schemes will be possible.
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Google Trends API

December 4, 2007 — Clint Modien

Google Trends API coming soon | Tech news blog - CNET News.com:

Hey Ben…  How kewl would this be…

During the question and answer portion of a Webcast demonstration of Google Trends on Tuesday, Mayer said the company would eventually release a Google Trends API. She also said the company would make it possible to download data from Google Trends into spreadsheets. Mayer said she couldn’t provide a time frame for either action.

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Facebook knows what movies I rent at Blockbuster! (If I want)

November 27, 2007 — FrankFactor

Facebook continues to lead the way with their social network platform and offers another interesting business solution:

http://www.facebook.com/business/?beacon

“Allow your customers to share with their friends the actions they take on your website. For user actions you define, Facebook Beacon will publish a story in the user’s profile and to friends’ News Feeds with a link back to your site.”

That’s damn cool…

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Flex Based Office Suite

November 27, 2007 — Clint Modien

EverythingFlex » Blog Archive » Flex Based Office:

It looks like the online Office wars will soon be heating up. With the emergence of Google Docs and Adobe Buzzword for online Word docs as well as other lesser known names like Zoho, comes a new entry from an old player. Sabeer Bhatia co-founded Hotmail has a new venture named Live Documents and it is an online competitor to the Microsoft Office suite and the good news is that like Buzzword, it is built on the Adobe Flex framework. That must really hurt in Redmond, WA :-)

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