Three million Adobe accounts hacked? Sorry, make that 38 MILLION Remember that Adobe security breach earlier this month that leaked the account records of some 3 million customers? Scratch that: the actual number hacked was at least 38 million, it has emerged. In early October, Adobe warned of "sophisticated attacks" on its network in which hackers gained access to data for what was then …
I can't help to think that some at Adobe thought..."Hey, let's just divide the number by 10 so it still seems large, but we can't ever disclose the real number". Basically, I'm betting they intentionally lied. And the fact that source code was lifted is a huge pie in the face. Does Adobe keep the source code right next to the coffee pot?
This cloud thing isn't working out so well for them, maybe they should loose the cloud and stick to what was working to being with.
Their 'Creative Cloud' is cloud based insofar as the software installed on your machine talks to a validation server to make sure your license is legit. It isn't cloud based any more than Windows Genuine Advantage is cloud based.
When you can edit photos via a browser connected to the Internet and pulling the original file from your mobile device then it'll be cloud based and we'll all have super fast broadband. Until then it's 100% marketing smack.
It's a shame their chat operators wasn't owning up to this Tuesday morning when I contacted them to ask why the unique email address I'd signed up with was being spamed "Chris, I have checked at my end and your account is not impacted from the security breach". When pushed again I got the answer "that is correct", "I have checked that at my end your account is fine not been hacked." and shortly after they closed the chat.
LOL - you're an idiot if u still use Pirate Bay - I got such a persistent virus from that site I had to entirely reinstall EVERYTHING - it blasted through both AV and malware software like it wasn't even there.....Luckily I keep everything disk imaged.....gonna move everything important to an offline computer & use a cheap netbook for all online stuff...just like the NSA does ;*p
When their software titles have had a very confused and illogical numbering pattern.
I thought photoshop was good at version 5.5 ... but then i magically got back to version 2 (creative suite) before climbing to 6? Now with online CC its back at 1... these lot can't count!
"The company has offered one year's worth of free credit monitoring by Experian to any customer whose account was compromised in the attack"
Adobe really are jokers, Experian are known sell their info to identity thieves, putting your customers in their care is grossly negligent.
And if you did anything with your credit before that you were a TRW customer, at least until 1996. I don't recall if the company changed their name in '96 or not. Experian's the worst of the consumer credit bureaus anyway, they consistently miss things (and fairly major things, like death) that Equifax and TransUnion see.
Not only did they get pwned, I got one of the lovely letters from them saying they were so sorry my info had been taken and here's an authorization code to sign up for free credit monitoring. So I go to the Experian site to sign up and guess what, the code doesn't work. Thanks for your concern.
FYI Adobe... I just finished uninstalling the last copy of Acrobat on our workstations at the office. It won't be missed.
because this was a news story on Radio 4 today, I've had two people ring up and say 'have my details been hacked", even though they just use Adobe Reader and have never signed into their services. Now if you want to extrapolate from that to Adobe's user base in general, it's probably not very good press.
Gnash still doesn't work worth a good goddamn, which is a shame. And its been a year and a half since the last release, which is also a shame. Anything that doesn't crash as much as Flash is definitely welcome, but Gnash simply doesn't work well enough for my use case.
If you want a FOSS flash plugin replacement that actually works (with audio too, imagine that) most of the time, try Mozilla's Shumway, it only works in Firefox and SeaMonkey though but since you're talking about a GNU product, you're probably not using Chrome or IE. It should work in the unbranded versions like Iceweasel also. I haven't run into anything it can't play since I've been using it, so much so that I uninstalled flash and haven't noticed.
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