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dobe announced its plans for Flash Player on tablets in time for Mobile World Congress last week. Now the company is fine-tuning its earlier news.
Adobe stated in a blog post on Monday that it expects the Motorola Xoom to be the first tablet to receive Flash Player 10.2. This latest Flash Player update is said to significantly reduce CPU usage and battery use when rendering Flash content.
As with previous versions of Flash Player, Adobe will preinstall Flash Player 10.2 on some tablets and will offer it as an over-the-air (OTA) download on others. The timeline still won't be immediate, however. Adobe will release OTA downloads "a few weeks" after Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets land on store shelves.
In addition to Android compatibility, Adobe has also committed to making Flash Player 10.2 available for RIM's BlackBerry Tablet OS, the operating system behind its forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook.
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Weekly Troubleshooting Utilities Update
Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is on bringing you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems. This week we have had updates to a few notable maintenance utilities, as well as an update to a small system-monitoring menu extra and an NTFS filesystem driver.
Maintenance
In maintenance utility updates this past week, MacCleanse now has support for Microsoft Office 2011. The program offers a number of cleaning and maintenance options for OS X, removes only the necessary files, and provides thorough logs of all activities. A full license of the program is $19.95.
In maintenance utility updates this past week, MacCleanse now has support for Microsoft Office 2011. The program offers a number of cleaning and maintenance options for OS X, removes only the necessary files, and provides thorough logs of all activities. A full license of the program is $19.95.
The other maintenance updates this past week are for Maintenance and OnyX. Both of these are free utilities, and the latest updates have improved the options for deleting the Application and System caches as well as Web histories.
System monitoring and filesystem
Besides the maintenance utility updates there is an update for one system-monitoring utility as well as a filesystem support option for the NTFS format. The tool MiniUsage is a small menu extra for OS X that provides a quick view of CPU usage, network activity, battery status, and various other statistics. The program is free, and the latest version fixes a small display error associated with using the rotated display feature.
Besides the maintenance utility updates there is an update for one system-monitoring utility as well as a filesystem support option for the NTFS format. The tool MiniUsage is a small menu extra for OS X that provides a quick view of CPU usage, network activity, battery status, and various other statistics. The program is free, and the latest version fixes a small display error associated with using the rotated display feature.
The next tool is the Tuxera NTFS driver for providing OS X with more complete support for the NTFS filesystem. While the built-in NTFS driver will allow you to read NTFS and can be tweaked to allow for writing, its features are not all supported, and Tuxera NTFS not only provides these but is far more optimized for handling NTFS disks. The latest version implements better handling of invalid characters, and the driver is further optimized for the 64-bit kernel. In addition the calculated free space is now correct in Snow Leopard, and the driver's handling of resource forks is more compatible with OS X. A full license for Tuxera NTFS is 25 euros (about $31), but there is a free version that is developed in parallel with the Tuxera release.
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Online banking hit by thieves
A new Trojan dubbed "OddJob" is stealing people's money by taking over their online banking sessions after they think they've logged off.
The Trojan, which targets Windows-based computers, is being used by criminals in Eastern Europe to steal money from accounts in the United States, Poland, and Denmark, Amit Klein, chief technology officer of Trusteer, writes in a blog post today.
Klein said in an e-mail that he could not identify the banks being targeted or provide an estimate on the number of victims.
"It is early days for this malware," he said. "It appears to be a work in progress, so we expect the code to become more sophisticated over time."
The Trojan intercepts communications that customers have with banking sites via Internet Explorer or Firefox, stealing or interjecting information and terminating user browser sessions when done, Trusteer said.
When a bank customer is on the bank site, the Trojan takes advantage of the session IT token to impersonate the customer, riding the coattails of the existing authenticated session. It then bypasses the logout request of the customer so that the session is not actually terminated when the customer thinks he or she is logging out.
To avoid triggering security software, the malware's configuration is not saved to disk, but a fresh copy is fetched from the command and control server each time a new browser session is opened.
Web surfers can protect themselves by installing software security updates, refraining from clicking on URLs in e-mail messages, and using software that secures Web access, like Trusteer's Rapport product, the company said.
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