Adobe Reader to block attacks with sandbox tech

Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe, explains how sandboxing will protect Adobe Reader customers from attacks. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Adobe Reader will soon have an additional layer of protection against the many attacks that target the popular PDF viewer. Adobe Systems is borrowing a page from Microsoft’s and Google’s playbook by turning to sandboxing technology designed to isolate code from other parts of the computer

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Firefox’s Jetpack extensions get 2010 goal

(Credit: Mozilla) Mozilla had to restart an effort to overhaul Firefox’s extension technology, but the Jetpack reboot is steadily coming together. Mozilla has released five beta versions of the Jetpack Software Developer Kit, a package that puts a friendly face on Firefox’s inner workings so that extensions can do things such as open new tabs, add menu items, and modify Web pages

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Free: Serif PagePlus desktop publishing software

Serif PagePlus is a killer desktop-publishing app. The X4 version costs $100, but the very capable Starter Edition is free! (Credit: Serif) It’s odd that the need to create newsletters, fliers, brochures, and the like hasn’t gone away, but desktop publishing software has.

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Firefox 4 upgrade ideas start becoming reality

Mozilla released a new Firefox 4 prototype late Monday that builds in support for Google’s WebM video technology and several other changes planned for the open-source Web browser’s next major version. With WebM, Google hopes to liberate Web video from patent-related royalty constraints of today’s prevailing video compression technology, H.264. Mozilla and Google are working to make WebM’s VP8 codec a standard part of the new specification for built-in video being added to the HTML5 Web page design technology

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Marketing departments abscond with ‘HTML5′

Apple’s launch of Safari 5 made it final: the marketing people have snatched the term “HTML5″ away from the developers. HTML5 is the next version of the Hypertext Markup Language standard for creating Web pages

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With Safari 5, Apple plugs four dozen holes

(Credit: Apple) Apple has released the latest version of its Safari browser that includes fixes for four dozen security holes, mostly in the open-source WebKit technology and many of which leave a computer open to compromise by drive-by-download attacks from visiting a malicious Web page. Safari 5 for Windows and Mac debuted on Monday . The impact on security issues is detailed in this advisory , which applies to Safari 5.0 and Safari 4.1

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