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New Google Earth API and Browser plug-in unveiled

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Google has unveiled the New Google Earth API and browser plug-in, allowing web developers to embed Google Earth inside any web page with a few lines of code, while the JavaScript API can be used to to enable Earth-based web applications.

Users are interested in seeing the world’s information in a geographic context, which has lead to the rise of the Geoweb, a collection of user-generated content associated with a given location. The Google Maps API, with over 150,000 developer sites, and the Google Earth client, with over 400 million downloads, are both successful tools to help users visualize this Geoweb of content.
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View the thousands of existing 3D buildings, or add their own 3D models and also switch to Google Sky mode for high-res imagery of stars, planets, and galaxies. As the latest member of their Maps API family, the Google Earth API allows web developers to turn their web pages into 3D map applications. They can now use the Earth as their canvas, leveraging the same technologies used in the desktop Google Earth client.

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un-patched Flaw lies in the Adobe Flash Player 9 browser plugin

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An un-patched flaw in Adobe Systems Flash Player 9 software; is being exploited by online criminals, Symantec reported on Monday.

Flaw lies in the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player browser plugin, which is widely used by Internet surfers to view animated Web pages. The flaw affects both the recently released Flash Player version 9.0.124 .0 and version 9.0.115.0, according to an advisory posted Monday to Symantec’s Security Focus Web site.

The flaw lets attackers run unauthorized software on the PC, and if the attack fails for some reason it will likely crash the browser, Security Focus said. Symantec is not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for the flaw, the advisory states.

In January, Adobe and other Web-development-tool vendors had to fix bugs in their development tools that created buggy Shockwave Flash (.swf) files that could be exploited in a cross-site scripting attack. This attack can be used by phishers, but it also gives the bad guys a nearly undetectable route into a victim’s bank account or almost any type of Web service.
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Adobe last month patched seven bugs in Flash Player, including the one that allowed hacker Shane Macaulay to win a laptop and US$5,000 for hacking into a Windows Vista machine in a March contest at the CanSecWest security conference.