Adobe released a security upgrade for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and earlier for Windows and Macintosh. This upgrade addresses vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious .TIF file must be opened in Photoshop CS5 and earlier for Windows and Macintosh by the user for an attacker to be able to exploit these vulnerabilities. Adobe is not aware of any attacks exploiting these vulnerabilities against Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop CS6, which addresses these vulnerabilities. For users who cannot upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe recommends users follow security best practices and exercise caution when opening files from unknown or untrusted sources.

To be clear, Photoshop CS5 has a security issue that allows remote control of a system via a malicious image file, and Adobe’s only solution is for users to pay to upgrade to CS6.

CS6 was released this week. If it hadn’t been, I’m sure CS5 would have gotten the patch.

Despicable.

Update.

For the most part, Adobe is offering its CS packages at the same price as its 5.5 offerings as well, with pricing for the Design Standard ($1,299) and Master Collection ($2,599) packages remaining unchanged. One notable exception is the Production Premium package for video professionals, which is being bumped up $200 to $1,899 thanks in part to the addition of new applications Adobe Prelude and Adobe Speed Grade. Lastly, Adobe’s $1,799 Web Premium package is being dropped from the company’s lineup, replaced with the $1,899 Design and Web Premium package.

In addition to a educational version, Adobe has options for subscribing to its “Creative Cloud” product, granting users access to its tools for $49.99 a month.

If you use Adobe’s applications heavily, the subscription doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but for students (who enjoy $20 off each month), it’s a pretty good deal, especially if they just need an app or two for a semester’s worth of classes.

The site describes a phone with a flat back with rounded corners, unibody construction and 4G/LTE connectivity.

While I usually don’t get excited about rumors like this, I can’t help myself this time. That thing looks really good.

An interesting tweet by Michael Margolis, a former Apple TV engineer at Apple Inc., popped up in our Twitter feed this evening, and we thought it was worth passing on. According to Margolis, the new Apple TV UI was not only on the table at Apple years ago, but Steve Jobs alledgedly shot it down because he didn’t like it at the time.

(Here’s the tweet.)

This would certainly could explain why the original AppleTV basically ran Front Row. Very interesting.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but then the next day there is an idea. Where you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation. But when you make a 3D model, however crude, you bring form to a nebulous idea and everything changes — the entire process shifts. It galvanises and brings focus from a broad group of people. It’s a remarkable process.