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A number of years ago I had a meeting with OneVision, a company used in newspaper/print for pre-production/press Quality Assurance amongst others things. At the time we were looking at trying to resolve issues with badly coded flash ads, where the clickTag() hadn’t been set properly or been set to CLICKTAG() or cLiCKTag() or some [...]

Mcafee are reporting that Adobe Reader and Flash are to be prime targets for criminal hackers next in 2010. This on the back of this report: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/mass_flash_file_vulnerability/ and http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/ My personal take on this is that yes, it could be used as a potential XSS but invariabaly it would have meant that the original 3rd [...]

We occasionally have to run SWF files instead of FLV files as a pre-roll ad unit in some of our Brightcove players. When producing these files developers need to follow some basic rules otheriwse all manner of weirdness occurs such as bad resizing of the unit to the player. This link to Brightcove’s own supprot [...]