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Title	Google: Web sites slow to fix serious Flash flaws
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 03/28/2008
Summary	Two months after Adobe Systems patched a serious flaw in its Flash development software, there are still hundreds of thousands of Web pages serving up buggy Shockwave Flash (.swf) files that could be exploited by hackers, according to a Google researcher. continue

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