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Updates to Acrobat, Reader, Flash Player and Illustrator are for critical vulnerabilities and will be available today.

Adobe has issued a series of updates to address a large number of vulnerabilities in their products. All updated products have at least one critical vulnerability.

The update to Adobe Acrobat and Reader fixes 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows and Mac products. The update to Flash Player fixes five vulnerabilities in all versions of the product: Windows, Mac and Linux, including the versions embedded in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

The Illustrator update addresses a single vulnerability in the Windows and Mac products.

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Adobe released security updates for Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Shockwave Player on Tuesday to address critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take control of systems running vulnerable versions of those programs.

Users of Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 will automatically receive updates for the Flash Player plug-in bundled with those browsers through their respective update mechanisms.

Users of Adobe Reader or Acrobat XI for Windows and Mac OS X are advised to upgrade to Adobe Reader XI (11.0.04) or Adobe Acrobat XI (11.0.04), respectively. Adobe Reader and Acrobat X for Windows and Mac have also been updated to version 10.1.8.

Right on time, Microsoft and Adobe released fixes today for Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office 2003 and 2011 and Adobe Flash Player. Time to dance that familiar dance and get those update...

Patch Tuesday is coming on 11 June 2013.

Paul Ducklin gives you a quick preview of what we know so far, and who'll be affected by the updates...

(Mac users, that might include you.)

Microsoft has released 12 patches covering 56 vulnerabilities as part of the February monthly "Patch Tuesday" update. Five of these patches are rated critical and code allow criminals to drive-by i...