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Adobe warns against Flash Player security exploit, offers version 14.0.0.125 as fix

Even if you’re not crazy about Adobe Flash Player these days, there’s a better reason than usual to upgrade to the new version. Per AppleInsider and Adobe, a well-known vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash player that could allow malicious users to steal browser data — including cookies — on Macs, PCs, and Linux machines has been […]

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Apple releases MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.8 for mid-2013, early-2014 MacBook Air notebooks, addresses sleep, peripheral issues

This might prove helpful. On Wednesday, Apple released its MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.8 for the mid-2013 and early-2014 MacBook Air notebooks. The update, a 4.8 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Improves reliability when waking from sleep and when booting while certain USB and Thunderbolt devices are connected.

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Microsoft cuts support, but XP still going strong

Support for the aging Windows XP operating system was dropped as of April 8th, but according to web traffic monitoring, the OS still held a little over 25% of the market share. While that number continues to drop, those same stats show XP to be second only to Windows 7 (nearly 50%) among the list […]

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Recent security updates make Macs more secure, unless you’re a Snow Leopard user

Everybody was concerned last week when it was announced that a nasty bug in OS X was leaving Macs vulnerable to attacks that could grab information traveling across shared networks. While it has been confirmed that the bug only affected Mavericks, Apple simultaneously posted security updates for Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7), but there […]

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Microsoft finally patching up Skype message sync problems

For some time since Microsoft acquired Skype, the conferencing and messaging software, users have been plagued by messages that won’t sync from one device to another. Additional problems included delayed notifications of new messages or notification of messages that have already been read. Anyone who used iMessages in its early days will recall similar, frustrating issues […]