Adobe Flash
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Silverlight, if you recall, appears to be Microsoft's answer to Adobe's AIR platform. Microsoft released Silverlight 2.0 today, as expected. Part of the big exciting news is that you can now code up Silverlight applications in Eclipse. Yeah, not kidding. I know, you just hit weather.com too and checked to see what the temperature was. But seriously, Microsoft is fully supportive of the Eclipse environment for Silverlight despite its own support with its own free tool, Visual Web Developer Express. I haven't checked out the Eclipse version yet, so I'll be interested to see it and hear how...
One of the most well-kept secrets in technology is the extensibility of HTTP. It's one of the reasons it became the de facto application transport protocol and it was instrumental in getting SOAP off the ground before SOAP 1.2 and WS-I Basic Profile made the requirement for the SOAP Action header obsolete. Web browsers aren't capable of adding custom HTTP headers on their own; that functionality comes from the use of client-side scripting languages such as JavaScript or VBScript. Other RIA (Rich Internet Applications) client platforms such as Adobe AIR and Flash are also capable of adding HTTP...
By now you've certainly heard about the "zero day" Adobe Flash player exploit. If not, you can read a bit about it here and here. What appears to be going on is similar to how other exploits and malware become quickly propagated across the web: Set up a site that hosts some malware with a simple but effective password stealer hidden in a Flash file Inject malicious code via SQL injection techniques into a web site that will load the Flash files from the host you set up in step 1....
