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Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks 238

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 23, 2009 @08:54PM from the p-d-q dept.

CWmike writes "Sourcefire security researcher Lurene Grenier has published a home-brewed patch for the critical Adobe Reader vulnerability that hackers are exploiting in the wild using malicious PDF files, beating Adobe Systems Inc. to the punch by more than two weeks. Grenier posted the patch on Sunday with the caveats that it applies only to the Windows version of Adobe Reader 9.0 and comes with no guarantees. Also, PhishLabs has created a batch file that resets a Windows registry key to de-fang the hack by disabling JavaScript in Adobe Reader 9.0, giving administrators a way to automate the process."

Submission + - Nintendo market value now higher than Sony (videogamesblogger.com)

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Wowzer

on Monday June 25, 2007 @07:48AM

Wowzer writes: "Nintendo's stock is now worth $53 billion and as a result Nintendo has surpassed Sony, who are currently worth $52 billion, in market value. The Wii continued to outsell the PS3 on average by two to one, since both console's launches in November 2006. From the article: "Nintendo sold 251,794 Wii machines in May in Japan, topping PlayStation 3 sales by a five-to-one margin. — Sony last month sold 81,600 PlayStation 3 units in America, while Nintendo sold 338,000 Wii's. So the PlayStation 3 trailed the Wii by four-to-one in May.""

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