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Whether it be a virus, trojan horse or worm, adware, badware or scamware, most Internet users are familiar with the notion that some software available online can do harm to both them and their computer.

These days people are becoming more cautious and savvy, but as they do so virus creators also up their game.

Adobe Flash player users should beware the newest in a string of attacks using cookie-based authentication credentials.

From the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT):

This vulnerability could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against both Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Reader and Acrobat.

The Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate available on http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ does not appear to be vulnerable.

As is mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, the Adobe Developer Week will be starting up on Monday, May 10th and will offer free sessions for developers interested in learning about Adobe products.

In October, Adobe demoed Flash Player 10.1, w

Adobe recommends users upgrade to Flash Player version 10.0.12.36 to avoid bugs that could lead to an attack over Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Chrome Web browsers.

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