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• The week in security: Flashback, brethren continue assault

  Malware authors continued to pull new cards from their bags of tricks, with suggestions a new approach uses JavaScript to look for mouse movements, indicating that the visitor is a real person and not a security vendor’s automated malware scanner. In the absence of mouse movement, no malware will be offered.

• Adobe, Microsoft patch document-based attacks

  Microsoft is urging organisations to apply its April Patch Tuesday updates one of which addresses “limited, targeted attacks” that use maliciously crafted RTF files.

• Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe send patches for Valentine's Day

  The Valentine's Day 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday is upon us, and Microsoft has come forward with details on the nine bulletins it previewed last week.

• FBI busts software copyright fugitive who fled to Pakistan

  The FBI today said it arrested a man on charges of illegally reproducing and distributing more than 100 copyrighted commercial software programs who had fled the country after being indicted last year.

• Fast Five: this week in IT, 02/09

  Your hand-picked five-minute wrap up of the biggest Australian IT stories of the week.

• Adobe unveils CreatePDF app for iPad

  Adobe has put its rocky relationship with Apple aside, announcing it has launched the Adobe CreatePDF application for the iPad.

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  Labor MP lambasts Apple and IT suppliers

  A Labor MP has suggested it is time for Australia's competition watchdog to look into why Silicon Valley companies, including Apple, are fleecing families and young people more than US customers for their products.

• Adobe acquires electronic signature company EchoSign

  Adobe Systems said on Monday that it has acquired EchoSign, a web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation, for an undisclosed amount.

• PlayBook OS updated after Adobe Flash security issue

  A new version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS will soon be available to all BlackBerry PlayBook tablet users, to address a security issue raised by Adobe about its Flash Player, Research In Motion said Sunday.

• Dymocks taps Android for e-book, tablet move

  National book retailer Dymocks has partnered with Acer to offer Android-powered tablets as a vehicle for e-book sales along with a new Android app.

• New jQuery boosts web site speeds

  A widely used open source library for simplifying Javascript-based Web application development has just gotten a performance jolt.

• Digital Education Revolution prompts teacher re-training

  Teachers and students in NSW state schools are being supplied with new digital training to help them cope with the incorporation of IT and digital media in the education sector.

• In brief: Adobe schools public service on PDF accessibility

  Australian public servants will receive a crash course on using Adobe’s popular Portable Document Format (PDF) in an attempt by the Federal Government to make the typically secure format more accessible.

• Adobe hits $US1B in quarterly revenue for first time

  For the first time in the company's history, Adobe Systems has generated over $US1 billion in revenue within a single fiscal quarter, it reported Monday.

• Adobe warns of Shockwave bug

  Adobe warned Thursday of a critical bug in its Shockwave Player that affects both Windows and Macintosh PCs.