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Friday, February 20, 2009

Here’s a Patch for You, Adobe: \Acrobat\Uninstall.exe

adobe-acrobat-reader-256x256There’s a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat and at least one zero-day exploit for them in the wild already. Yet Adobe won’t have a fix in place until March 11, and then only for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9. Patches for earlier versions of the software will arrive sometime after that.
Two and half weeks or longer to wait for a critical patch.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

‘PC Load Letter’? What the Hell Does That Mean? I’m Having a Heart Attack!!!!!!

It’s not quite Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy’s hypospray, but it’s close. Hewlett-Packard researchers have developed a medical patch that uses a modified version of the thermal inkjet technology found in the company’s printers to painlessly deliver medication to patients.
The transdermal patch uses thousands of microneedles to inject drugs just below the skin without hitting pain [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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