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After being pummeled by customers and security experts for tellingusers to spend hundreds of dollars on upgrades because it wasn'tgoing to patch critical bugs in older versions of its software,Adobe has reversed course. The company will now fix the eight vulnerabilities in theone-year-old Illustrator and Flash Professional CS5.5, and thetwo-year-old Photoshop CS5, an Adobe spokeswoman said via emaillate Friday. [ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and Security Central newsletter , both from InfoWorld. ] There will be no charge for the updates. A post by Adobe's product security response team to its official blog spelled out the change. "We are in the process of resolving the vulnerabilities addressedin these security bulletins in Adobe Illustrator CS5.x, AdobePhotoshop CS5.x, and Adobe Flash Professional CS5.x, and willupdate the respective security bulletins once the patches areavailable," the team wrote. Neither the response team nor the Adobe spokeswoman gave a reasonfor the change, or even acknowledged the brouhaha prompted by thefirm's earlier announcement. Last week, Adobe said it would not quash the bugs -- one is in Flash Professional, two in Photoshop and five inIllustrator -- and told customers to upgrade to the Creative Suite6 (CS6) editions if they wanted the patches. (Adobe launched CS6last month.) The steep upgrade prices, however, triggered anger among users andincredulousness among security researchers. "For all that they havebeen doing to revise their face of security, this just brings themright back into the dunce cap seat," said Andrew Storms, directorof security operations at nCircle Security, in a Friday interviewbefore Adobe changed its tune. Upgrade prices for the three applications range from $99 for FlashProfessional to $249 for Illustrator, while an upgrade to CS6Design & Web Premium, the least-expensive edition that includesall three, costs $375. On Saturday, Storms noted Adobe's reversal. "So it looks like Adobeis going to patch Photoshop CS5 after all," Storms said on Twitter. "Maybe they listened to all the mad people?" Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsersand general technology breaking news for Computerworld. FollowGregg on Twitter at @gkeizer , on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His email address is . See more by Gregg Keizer on Computerworld.com. Read more about security in Computerworld's Security Topic Center. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Ego E-Cig Batteries , Innokin E-Cig Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Variable Voltage Ecig.
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