The US Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and other US government agencies were infiltrated by the Adobe software breaches that came to light last month, the FBI said in a memo this week. The memo, which was distributed throughout the affected agencies, said that the breaches actually started in December […]
Catching up to its iOS counterpart, Adobe’s Reader app for Android has been updated with the same PDF conversion tools. This means that from within the app, you can now create PDFs from various popular file types, and vice versa. While the new version improves search, changes the file browser UI and adds multi-window support for free, you’ll need to reach for your wallet to use the PDF transmogrification features. Continuing Adobe’s love of subscriptions over purchases, the ExportPDF add-on for turning PDFs into other files costs just under $24 per year. The PDF pack, which lets you make PDFs from other files as well as the reverse, comes at a monthly charge of $10. We’re good, thanks.
Filed under: Mobile
Via: Android Beat, Android Police
Source: Play store
Android and iOS users have long been using their Facebook account for single click logging in to apps, and soon Windows 8 and Windows Phone users will be able to do the same. While the feature’s is still in its early stages (on WP8, it’s still in beta) Microsoft has announced that Foursquare, Adobe (Revel, Photoshop Express) and iHeartRadio are the first to get in on the action. Similar to Facebook Login on other platforms, using it will make it easier to share content from within the app, and connect your account info without punching in the credentials yet again. Foursquare will post your check-ins, the Adobe apps will let you upload photos easily, and you can share the station you’re listening to on iHeartRadio. Facebook users will probably want to keep an eye on their privacy settings to avoid oversharing, while holdouts from the social network can remain assured that Microsoft’s own account system is still positioned as the primary way to log in on the platform.
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Source: Microsoft (1), (2), Facebook
Quite a lot of people use the same password for almost all of their online accounts, and while pros and cons of this practise can be debated at length, there’s no denying the fact that if one account gets compromised, all accounts run the risk of being compromised. Recently Adobe was hit by a large scale hack, with as many as 38 million user accounts reportedly being exposed. Facebook has now started to lock out users who have used the same password for the social network as well, user’s can’t access the network until and unless they change their passwords.
Users will also have to answer a few questions to verify ownership of the account before they can change password and finally log in. They’ll be displayed a notification like the one posted above, which clearly states that “no one can see you” on the social network until you finish this process. To ascertain which of its over 1 billion users have been put at risk due to the Adobe hack, Facebook is combing through publicly posted database of the compromised accounts. The hack doesn’t directly affect Facebook in any way, the social network is taking this step to ensure that compromised users don’t run in to problems on the social network as well. [Image via Engadget]
Facebook Requires Users Compromised By Adobe Hack To Change Passwords original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Twitter‘s per-click ad value has increased by 300% since last year, an Adobe report shows. In Q3 2012, revenue-generating websites earned on average $0.11 for every link click-through from Twitter; in Q3 2013, that figure was $0.44. That revenue-per-visit (RPV) is by far the highest-percentage per-click revenue growth for the period for any social network, […]
This article was written on March 01, 2007 by CyberNet.
Adobe recently announced their plans to release an online version of Photoshop, their popular image editing application. It will be a “light version” made using Flex, and is expected in the next six months.
Because it is a “light” version, I’m assuming that it will be no different that some of the online photo editors already available. People like Photoshop because of the range of editing options that it offers. A lighter version certainly wouldn’t be able to handle all of the complex things that people turn to Photoshop to do.
Instead of aiming this product towards the people who already use the application, it’s aimed towards the home/casual user who wants to touch up a picture before uploading it to a social network, or sending it off via email to friends and family.
The online version will be free, and Adobe plans on supporting it with ads to make money. This sends up a red flag to photo-editing startups. With everything going online nowadays, this is definitely a smart move for Adobe. While the daily, professional users will stick to the stand alone option, it will be opened to new users.
Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen says that while it’s a lighter, lower-end product, they still expect it to be of better quality than other free alternatives (Picasa?). They’re hoping that the brand they’ve already established will help them out. Chizen says:
“If we offered a host-based version of Photoshop that’s Photoshop-branded (and is) potentially better than Picasa, you’d probably go the Photoshop route because of your belief in the Photoshop brand and the quality associated with the brand,”
There’s certainly issues to think about with any online photo editing service like dealing with the download/upload speeds for high resolution photos. Also, would you be able to keep your photos private? Access to the Internet is not always there, so there’d be no editing on the road.
With this announcement, I’m sure many companies and startups are feeling the pressure. Microsoft is probably one of them. Everybody around them is taking applications online, which makes me wonder if/when will Microsoft take some of their applications online?
Source: News.com
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AnonNews.org this weekend posted a 3.8 GB file listing over 150 million Adobe account usernames and hashed passwords stolen in the late September breach that came to light Oct. 3, reports Krebs Online Security. 38 million users were directly affected and have already been contacted by Adobe to change their passwords. That figure is above […]
Adobe has corralled Flash Player in OS X Mavericks, sandboxing the much-maligned plugin in Safari on Apple’s latest Mac operating system so as to minimize its potential to allow through malware. The move – which follows Adobe sandboxing its plugins when used in Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox – follows Apple’s increasing moves to keep […]
When Apple released OS X Mavericks to the public, not only did they introduce a new look and a host of new features to consumers, but they have also introduced added security to Mac computers as well with one of them through the use of the App Sandbox feature. Now it seems that after years of taking abuse and having to fight off malware and exploits through Adobe Flash Player, Adobe has announced that they will be taking advantage of App Sandbox which should help restrict malicious code from running outside of OS X Maverick’s native browser, Safari.
Thanks to the App Sandbox feature, it will allow Adobe to limit the plugin’s capabilities to read and write files, along with defining what sort of assets their Flash Player will be able to access. In a statement made by Adobe platform security specialist, Peleus Uhley, “Safari users on OS X Mavericks can view Flash Player content while benefiting from these added security protections […] We’d like to thank the Apple security team for working with us to deliver this solution.” This is not the first time that Adobe has attempted sandboxing as they have done so with other browsers in the past, such as with Google Chrome, Mozilla’s FireFox, and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but we guess Safari has since been added to that list.
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