Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency. Jared Verdi, one of the co-founders of Thumb Labs along with Rich Kern, tells TechCrunch that financial terms of the Thumb Labs acquisition are not being disclosed. The news follows on from Adobe’s acquisition of another New York-based design startup, Behance, a platform for designers and others in the creative industries to share their work, which Adobe picked up in December 2012 reportedly for around $ 150 million. Earlier this month, Adobe put the Behance acquisition into context when it announced a massive push on its Creative Cloud strategy, with social/community features powered by Behance. Verdi tells TechCrunch that Thumb Labs will see out existing contracts it has with other clients, but as of May 31, it will focus its efforts exclusively on making mobile apps for Behance. That’s a position it knows well. Thumb Labs, which officially launched as a business in 2011, created the first mobile app for Behance, and as it points out in a note announcing the deal on its site, “We have been working closely with their talented team ever since.” That’s included a new version of the Behance app, and its Creative Portfolio app. There are around 10 people working for Thumb Labs right now, Verdi says, and all of them are joining Adobe, based out of New York. Thumb Labs’ other clients have included a roster of startups, such as TechStars alum Bondsy (a platform to trade goods with friends); CanDoBaby (an app to make baby books); and ReadyForZero (a debt management app). The main part of Thumb Labs’ work will now be focused both on maintaining Behance’s existing apps, as well as developing new ones. This will include “definitely some tablet work”, including an iPad app, as well as apps for more platforms beyond Apple’s, and in general making Behance’s main site design responsive so that it’s more mobile-web friendly. Over time, there will be more focus on other Creative Cloud initiatives, which makes sense considering how linked the rise in cloud services has been with the boom in smartphone and tablet use. “We’ll also be working with other teams at Adobe for integration into the Creative Cloud. Mobile is a big part of that,” Verdi
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Adobe unplugs Creative Cloud sync tool during transition
The company apologized after an Instability forced it to take the preview version of a synchronization tool offline earlier than expected. The service syncs files on mobile devices, the Web, and PCs. [Read more]
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Adobe mulls Creative Cloud tweaks for long-term file access
The company hopes to mollify users who are worried that they’ll lose the ability to lose files created with Adobe software if their subscription runs out. [Read more]
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Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only
First time accepted submitter JDG1980 writes “According to CNET and various other sources, CS6 will be the last version of Adobe’s Creative Suite that will be sold in the traditional manner. All future versions will be available by subscription only, through Adobe’s so-called ‘Creative Cloud’ service. This means that before too long, anyone who wants an up-to-date version of Photoshop won’t be able to buy it – they will have to pay $ 50 per month (minimum subscription term: one year). Can Adobe complete the switch to subscription-only, or will the backlash be too great? Will this finally spur the creation of a real competitor to Photoshop?”
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Adobe Photoshop CC pushes system online with subscription-based Creative Cloud
This week’s Adobe Max 2013 conference has played host to the announcement of a new system known as Creative Cloud, taking what did exist with Adobe’s Creative Suite and making it a system prepared for the future online. This transition brings in a monthly subscription cost of $ 50 USD in exchange for Sync services, 20GB
Unity stops offering Flash game engine licenses, cites a lack of Adobe love
The Unity 4 engine has given Flash gaming a lot of TLC by simplifying web ports of complex projects. If you ask Unity Technologies, however, that love isn’t being requited — and the company feels jilted enough to stop offering new Flash licenses, effective immediately. Adobe supposedly isn’t committed enough to the plugin, having halted work on both a re-engineered Flash Player Next as well as an attractive revenue sharing model. Unity is equally concerned about the broader developer community shying away from Flash at the same time as its own plugin, Unity Web Player, has soared past 200 million installs. While those with existing licenses should have Flash support for as long as versions of Unity 4 are in the field, the exit is bound to have game creators scrambling to find alternatives for any future web-based titles.
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Adobe Introduces Lightroom 5 Public Beta, With New Features For Enthusiasts And Pros Alike
Adobe’s Lightroom is probably the best software available when it comes to a photographer’s digital darkroom needs. The company has been putting lots of time and effort into building it into something that appeals to both pros and enthusiasts, and now it’s releasing Lightroom 5 beta, representing the fastest turnaround for a major point release in the app’s history.
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Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows to boast OpenCL support
Premiere Pro has already been tearing through video with OpenCL on Macs for a year, and now AMD and Adobe have teamed up to bring support for the open standard to Windows with the software’s next version. Not only does the duo claim it’s the first time Microsoft’s OS has been graced with hardware-accelerated video editing using OpenCL, but they boast that exporting video replete with effects from a source to a final format can now be done up to 4.3 times faster. There’s no word on when the fresh release of Premiere Pro will arrive, but if it’s any consolation, Adobe says it’s set to unveil some “incredible enhancements” to its video editing tools at NAB next week.
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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch resigns to work at Apple
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company to take a job at Apple, a one-time close partner of Adobe that became the most vociferous critic of its Flash technology.
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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch moves onto Apple
Adobe announced some great news earlier today, stating that it had made a whopping $ 1.008 billion in the past 3 months. That earnings figure was about 30% higher than its anticipated $ 750 million earnings figure. Unfortunately, Adobe followed that good news with some terrible news. It has just announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Kevin
Adobe Announces A New Social Interface For Its Marketing Cloud, Says It’s Breaking Down Silos
Adobe is in the middle of Summit, its annual digital marketing conference, and as expected it’s making a bunch of product announcements. The biggest one is a new interface for Adobe Marketing Cloud, the company’s suite of products that includes Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Social, Adobe Experience Manager, and Adobe Media Optimizer.
Brad Rencher, senior vice president and general manager of Adobe’s digital marketing business, said that as consumer expectations change and as companies have access to more and more data, marketers need to deliver great “last millisecond interactions” — that, he said, is “where we’re either heroes or we’re average.” And that means it’s increasingly important for design, advertising, and analytics teams to work together in an efficient way.
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Adobe squeezes Photoshop down to phone size
Adobe brings its flagship photo editor down another screen size with Photoshop Touch for phone, now for Android and iOS. [Read more]
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Adobe Debuts Photoshop Touch For Phones, Bringing The Full Power Of The Tablet Version To Your Pocket
Adobe mobile Photoshop strategy has so far kept more heavyweight editing to tablets with Photoshop Touch, and left the iPhone with Photoshop Express. But today the company has officially released Photoshop Touch for iPhone and Android smartphones, which inherits virtually all of the functionality of the more powerful tablet app, with an interface tailored to the smaller screens.
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Adobe springs emergency Flash update, says hackers hitting Firefox
Adobe today patched new vulnerabilities in Flash Player that hackers are now exploiting in attacks aimed at Firefox users, the company said.
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Adobe to patch Reader zero-day this week with rush update
Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week.
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Adobe CEO clumsily dodges pricing questions in YouTube ‘farce’ (video)
If Adobe has any love whatsoever for its non-US customers, it’s not great at showing it. The video after the break reveals CEO Shantanu Narayen evading the genuine questions of a Delimiter journalist at a press conference in Sydney. The reporter wanted to know why Adobe’s Creative Suite is priced $ 1,400 higher in Australia than in America, reflecting a geographic disparity that has long vexed Australian customers and lawmakers alike. But instead of answering, Narayen sought to shrug the journalist off with some marketing spiel about an entirely different product — Creative Cloud — ultimately leading Delimiter to condemn the whole episode as a “farce.”
If we understand Narayen right, he seems to be implying that Australian customers are being charged a high price for traditional boxed software in order to nudge them towards Adobe’s subscription-based cloud service instead. Given that the Creative Cloud was itself hugely overpriced in Australia until a sudden and awkward u-turn just a couple of days ago, that sort of argument is hardly likely to win back much affection. However, this older Narayen clip actually might.
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Zero-day PDF exploit affects Adobe Reader 11 and earlier versions, researchers say
Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions of Adobe Reader 9, 10 and 11.
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Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Called By Lawmakers To Defend Higher Prices In Australia
Three American companies-Apple, Microsoft and Adobe-have been summoned by the Australian Parliament to explain why they charge higher prices Down Under than in other countries.
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Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes
An anonymous reader writes “Live outside the U.S.? Tired of paying huge local price markups on technology products from vendors such as Apple, Microsoft and Adobe? Well, rest easy, the Australian Government is on the case. After months of stonewalling from the vendors, today the Australian Parliament issued subpoenas compelling the three vendors to appear in public and take questions regarding their price hikes on technology products sold in Australia. Finally, we may have some answers for why Adobe, for example, charges up to $ 1,400 more for the full version of Creative Suite 6 when sold outside the U.S.”
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Adobe will try to stymie some Flash attacks with new pop-up
Adobe plans to add a new security feature to Flash Player in an attempt to block some of the exploits hackers are hiding inside older Microsoft Office documents.
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Adobe Hopes Pop-up Warnings Will Stop Office-Borne Flash Attacks
tsamsoniw writes “In the wake of the most recent zero-day attacks exploiting Flash Player, Adobe claims that it’s worked hard to make Player secure — and that most SWF exploits stem from users opening infected Office docs attached to emails. The company has a solution, though: A forthcoming version of Flash Player will detect when it’s being launched from Office and will present users with a dialog box with vague warnings of a potential threat.”
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New Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities Being Actively Exploited On Windows and OS X
Orome1 writes “Adobe has pushed out an emergency Flash update that solves two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0633 and CVE-2013-0634) that are being actively exploited to target Windows and OS X users, and is urging users to implement it as soon as possible. According to a security bulletin released on Thursday, the OS X exploit targets Flash Player in Firefox or Safari via malicious Flash content hosted on websites, while Windows users are targeted with Microsoft Word documents delivered as an email attachments which contain malicious Flash content. Adobe has also announced its intention of adding new protections against malicious Flash content embedded in Microsoft Office documents to its next feature release of Flash Player.”
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Adobe releases emergency Flash fixes for two zero-day bugs
Adobe updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs.
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Adobe patches exploited ColdFusion flaws
Adobe released security patches for its ColdFusion application server on Tuesday, addressing four critical vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited by attackers since the beginning of January.
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Adobe to patch 2-year-old Shockwave flaw next year
Adobe plans in February to close a dangerous hole in its Shockwave application that causes the application to be downgraded when a user launches older multimedia content, allowing hackers to target years-old vulnerabilities.
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Adobe suffers database leak, user forum taken offline
An alleged data breach has resulted in Adobe taking down a user forum while it investigates reports of a hack. [Read more]
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Hacker Grabs 150k Adobe User Accounts Via SQL Injection
CowboyRobot writes “Adobe today confirmed that one of its databases has been breached by a hacker and that it had temporarily taken offline the affected Connectusers.com website. The hacker, who also goes by Adam Hima, told Dark Reading that the server he attacked was the Connectusers.com Web server, and that he exploited a SQL injection flaw to execute the attack. ‘It was an SQL Injection vulnerability, somehow I was able to dump the database in less requests than normal people do,’ he says. Users passwords for the Adobe Connectusers site were stored and hashed with MD5, he says, which made them ‘easy to crack’ with freely available tools. And Adobe wasn’t using WAFs on the servers, he notes. Tal Beery, a security researcher at Imperva, analyzed the data dump in the Connectusers Pastebin post and found that the list appears to be valid and that the hacked database was relatively old.”
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Adobe confirms breach of Connectusers.com forum database, shuts down website
Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com, a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform, because the site's user database was compromised.
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Adobe investigates alleged customer data breach
Adobe said Wednesday it is investigating the release of 230 names, email addresses and encrypted passwords claimed to have been stolen from a company database.
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Adobe, now ‘married’ to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday
Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday schedule.
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Adobe Online Ad Report: Google CPCs Decline 10% As Facebook Brand Engagement Surges 896%; iOS’ Conversion Rates ~2X Android’s
The latest Adobe Digital Index report into online advertising for Q3 underscores the twin challenges facing Google: mobile and social. While search advertising maintained steady growth in the U.S., U.K. and Germany, the report notes that a rise in traffic across mobile devices shifted search spending onto tablets and smartphones, thereby decreasing cost per click rates — especially for Google.
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Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight
An anonymous reader writes “Mozilla today announced it will soon start prompting Firefox users to upgrade select old plugins. This will only affect Windows users, and three plugins: Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight. Mozilla says Firefox users will ‘soon see a notification urging them to update’ when they visit a web page that uses the plugins.”
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Lingering Questions On the Extent of the Adobe Hack
chicksdaddy writes “In the wake of Adobe’s warning on Thursday about a high profile compromise on its network, security experts say the incident raises troubling questions about the extent of the breach at a company that makes software running on hundreds of millions of computers. Writing on Thursday, Brad Arkin, Adobe’s Senior Director of Product Security And Privacy, reassured customers that the company’s source code wasn’t stolen, nor did the hackers have access to code for any of Adobe’s core products like Adobe Reader or Flash. However, those with expertise in breaking into networks and cleaning up after hacks said the nature of the attack – which Adobe has described as having the characteristics of an ‘APT’ – or advanced persistent threat – make it difficult to know what attackers did or did not have access to and whether or not the threat has been removed. ‘If you put yourself in the hacker’s position you realize how much they must have known about Adobe internals to perform the hack they performed,’ said Dave Aitel of Immunity Inc. ‘If they had that kind of access it’s very hard to say that they were limited in their access and are completely removed from the network.’”
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Adobe: Next Photoshop won’t support Windows XP
Windows XP has been tremendously popular, but support for the 11-year-old operating system is waning. The next Photoshop will require Windows 7 or later.
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Adobe confirms Windows 8 users vulnerable to active Flash exploits
Microsoft’s Windows 8 is vulnerable to attack by exploits that hackers have been aiming at PCs for several weeks, Adobe confirmed Friday.
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Adobe Photoshop Touch iPad app now supports Retina Display
The latest flavor of the Adobe’s mobile verson of Photoshop gets a tune-up with support for Retina Display and other enhancements.
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Adobe updates Photoshop Touch with support for iPad retina display, bigger images
Adobe has updated its tablet-friendly version of Photoshop to v1.3, bringing along one change that’ll make new iPad owners very happy indeed. The interface and text have been up-rezzed to support the Retina display and 12-megapixel images, while everyone else can edit pictures of up-to 10-megapixels in size. The company’s also throwing in two new effects — shred and colorize — plus new three-finger gestures to ease navigation and a raft of minor bug fixes. So, come on, let’s see what masterpieces your jam-smeared digits can create.
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Adobe: ‘TV Everywhere’ revolution is just beginning
Adobe says the 7 million households that watched the Olympics pushed the TV Everywhere mindset into the mainstream.
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Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 provides powerful, advanced video color grading
Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 is a color grading software program that used to cost upwards of $ 20,000 when it was sold as a professional stand-alone package from Iridas. But following that company’s purchase by Adobe, SpeedGrade is now included with the CS6 Production Premium, Master Collection, and Creative Cloud bundles, or sold separately for $ 999. Using what Adobe calls the Lumetri Deep Color Engine, SpeedGrade allows you to perform professional color grading on your video footage–either in its raw format or as an edited composition derived from Premiere Pro CS6 ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ).
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Adobe Stops Flash Player Support For Android
New submitter Craefter writes “Adobe has finally seen the same light Steve Jobs did in 2010 and is now committed to putting mobile Flash player in the history books as soon as possible. Adobe will not develop and test Flash player for Android 4.1 and will now focus on a PC browsing and apps. In a blog post, they wrote, ‘Devices that don’t have the Flash Player provided by the manufacturer typically are uncertified, meaning the manufacturer has not completed the certification testing requirements. In many cases users of uncertified devices have been able to download the Flash Player from the Google Play Store, and in most cases it worked. However, with Android 4.1 this is no longer going to be the case, as we have not continued developing and testing Flash Player for this new version of Android and its available browser options. There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1. Beginning August 15th we will use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th.’”
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Adobe says no Flash Player for Android 4.1, plans to withdraw app on Aug. 15
There will be no certified implementations of Adobe Systems' Flash Player for Android 4.1, and on Aug. 15 the player will take a bow and no longer be available for download from Google's app store Play, Adobe said in blog post on Thursday.
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Adobe fixes Flash Player for Firefox to stop crashes
Adobe yesterday updated Flash Player to solve a weeks-long problem for users of Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
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Adobe Flash 11.3 checks in with security fixes, OS X silent updater and Firefox sandbox in tow
While feverishly revamping Flash with the all-new Next version — to keep HTML5 from killing it — Adobe is still plugging the current incarnation with smaller updates. To that end, Flash 11.3 just popped out of beta, which sees the company add a few notable goodies for the beleaguered plugin. On top of filling seven critical security holes, Adobe added a background updating feature for Mac OS X and signed the code in preparation for compatibility with Mountain Lion. That way it’ll align it with the upcoming Gatekeeper feature in the next OS X release, though you’ll have to dial its max security down one notch to get it. Lastly, sandboxing — already in Chrome — has been tacked on to Firefox as well, slowing hackers by isolating the plugin from critical system processes. All that fresh duct tape and polyfill should keep Flash rattling along — until Adobe can pull the gleaming Next platform out of the hangar. Meanwhile, click the source for the download links.
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Adobe patches critical Flash bugs, ships sandboxed plug-in for Firefox
Adobe today patched seven critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player — the fifth security update so far in 2012 — and released a sandboxed plug-in for Mozilla’s Firefox.
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Camera+ Turned Down Acquisitions From Adobe, Google, Twitter; Also Says “F*ck The VCs”
Two years ago, app developer tap tap tap launched Camera+ onto the App Store. For only a buck, users could get way more mileage out of the mobile photography experience, bringing 27 color effects and granular controls to their iPhone cameras. These features have made it one of the most popular camera apps out there. So popular, in fact, that Camera+ rang in its second birthday today with its 8 millionth download, tap tap tap founder John Casasanta said in a blog post.
As part of the celebration, Casasanta reflected on his company’s journey over the past two years. In his post, he reveals that tap tap tap received a handful of acquisition offers from several notable names: “It started with Adobe, then went to Zynga (for The Heist, not really for Camera+), then Google. And most recently, Twitter.” And he had a word or two for VCs, too.
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Adobe will issue security fixes for CS5 apps after all
The company says it’s working on patches for Creative Suite 5.x versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. Previously, customers would have had to pay to upgrade to CS6 to get the fixes.
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Adobe changes tune on CS5 updates, won’t seek paid CS6 upgrade to patch vulnerabilities
Things have gotten interesting in the world of CS updates. Recently, Computerworld reported that Adobe had informed folks using an older version of its famed Creative Suite — CS5 and CS5.5, to be exact — they’d have to shell out the CS6 upgrade fee in order to get a fix for some recently discovered bugs. Apparently, Adobe took notice to its customers’ dissatisfaction and updated its initial blog post with a changed tune, stating, “We are in the process of resolving these vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop CS5.x, and will update this Security Bulletin once the patch is available.” The same is true for both Illustrator and Flash. This kerfuffle started after Adobe handed out warnings for eight “critical” vulnerabilities found in certain versions of the three applications — some of which are said to be exploitable and could potentially be used to “take control of the affected system.” We’ll see how it all plays out over the upcoming days, but in the meantime hit the links below to see if you need to take any action.
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Adobe backpedals, will now patch software for free
After being pummeled by customers and security experts for telling users to spend hundreds of dollars on upgrades because it wasn’t going to patch critical bugs in older versions of its software, Adobe has reversed course.
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Adobe: Pay upgrade price to patch critical bugs
Adobe has told users of its Creative Suite, which includes the company’s premier products like Photoshop and Illustrator, to spend $ 375 to upgrade if they want patches for eight critical vulnerabilities.
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