On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 16:29:53 Takehiko Abe wrote:
You mentioned "Dowd exploit of flash". Google returns:
"IBM researcher Mark Dowd has outlined a Flash vulnerability that
could allow for a rare cross-platform web-based exploit."
This is definitely not the incident of the exploits you suggested.
No email got stolen. It says Mark Dowd is an IBM researcher.
He is not a criminal.
Mark Dowd is an IBM researcher who discovered the hole in flash and constructed
the exploit. You can read about all gory details in his paper:
http://documents.iss.net/whitepapers/IBM_X-Force_WP_final.pdf
And since he is not a criminal, he published his findings so that Adobe can fix
the appropriate hole.
HTH, :-)
Marko