Another critical Adobe Reader Vulnerability.

A vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in authplay.dll when processing SWF content and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

From Adobe's security advisory

A critical vulnerability exists in the current versions of Flash Player (v9.0.159.0 and v10.0.22.87) for Windows, Macintosh a...

There is a cool way to launch the Malicious Software Removal Tool by Microsoft. I was listening to the Security Now 180: Listener Feedback 58 podcast and Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson described a cool way to launch the Malicious Software Removal Tool

Here are both ways

1) Click on Start-->Run enter MRT and hit enter

2) Right click anywhere on the desktop, then select New-->Shortcut, type MRT into the edit field, and hit Next and then Finish. This will create a shortcut to MRT.exe, in this case the shortcut points to %windir%\system32\...

Today I recieved this email from Wikipedia.

Someone from the IP address 213.249.29.28 requested that we send you a new login password for the English Wikipedia.



The new password for the user account "myusername" is "theusername". You can now log in to Wikipedia using that password.



If someone else made this request, or if you have remembered your password and you no longer wish to change it, you may safely ignore this message. Your old/existing password will continue to work despite this new password being created for you.