Adobe releases critical Flash security update

By: Robert Vamosi
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Adobe acknowledged critical vulnerabilities within its Flash player and recommends downloading an updated version, 8.0.24.0. The advisory affects all versions of Flash before 8.0.22 running on Windows 98, 98 SE, Me, and XP. To find out what version you have, visit this Macromedia Flash page. The Flash vulnerabilities, if exploited, could allow a remote attacker to gain control of an affected system. Adobe also released security updates for Macromedia Breeze Meeting Add-In (for online conferencing) and Shockwave Player 10.1.1.

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by petewestwood May 26, 2010 5:30 PM EDT: With reports that sales have been brisk, Kendra Wilkinson, the latest star out of No where ville, America stands to make a chunk of change for being immortalized from a reality mess to a now porn reality mess. Which is kind of reassuring for all those other messes in society contemplating their next step.

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/05/its-time-to-finally-watch-kendra-wilkinson-have-sex/; Reply to this comment


by sean56v May 12, 2010 6:19 AM EDT: Kendra should sue Vivid for violation of her creative right. The video has an exclusive property privilege to the maker, unless it is sold to a vendor of dvd.; Reply to this comment


by alancontact May 7, 2010 10:05 PM EDT: I'm looking forward to seeing it. I hope she acts better in it than she did in "The Girls Next Door".; Reply to this comment


by magnumdr May 7, 2010 7:46 PM EDT: Kendra, Kendra, Kendra. Why would you make a tape like this in the first place. Never trust any man with this tape like this. Better yet dont make any more.; Reply to this comment


by LIBERALS-are-HYPOCRITES-2 May 7, 2010 6:46 PM EDT: Dont want it released-then dont make the video.; Reply to this comment


by bobnjersey May 7, 2010 6:12 PM EDT: [Wilkinson, a former Playboy model, knew about the video but that she made it with a man she trusted and didn't think that it would be released to the public. ]

anyone who's watched her shows would know that 'kendra' is not the brightest bulb in the room. it's not like there are other cases where sex tapes get released by ex boyfriends.; Reply to this comment

by bcerentano May 7, 2010 6:08 AM EDT

just another white-trash ho-bag.

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by sean56v May 7, 2010 8:35 AM EDT: bcerentano. keep your baboon screams inside your cage.


by tmittelstaed May 6, 2010 6:22 PM EDT: Oh for crying out loud this woman was one of the 3 stars of "Girls" which is nothing more than a paid infomercial for the Playboy magazine, posed nude for playboy in 2005, and supposedly had a "relationship with a man she trusted" who made the video during the time she was supposedly Hef's girlfriend.

She gold-dug into Playboy and is now married to an $800K a year NFL player and also now has her own reality show - Kendra - also on E!, which is a spinoff of "Girls"

Those shows are doing great on cable since cable thinks that 2 million viewers is a lot - and wow, how coincidental that this tape suddenly comes out right now during E!'s promotion for the next season of "Kendra"

Shes just one more in a long-line of 10-minute-of-famers who got there based on her body - and now age and gravity are beginning to take their toll and she's realizing that in 5 years she's going to look no different than anyone else and she's trying to wring the last drops of milk out of the cow.; Reply to this comment


by endurorob_5 May 6, 2010 12:22 PM EDT: Although I feel is stupid to make a sex video I also feel if it is private and you have not signed a release then anyone selling it is committing a criminal act.; Reply to this comment