Saturday, October 17, 2015

Flash: Adobe admits security flaw in the plugin – EN Journal

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Flash is still a headache for Adobe. The company, which has seen giants like Google, Apple, Mozilla and Facebook to abandon the technology, admitted that there is a security breach. One more. And cybercriminals have used and abused …

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It was found one (new) serious security flaw in Flash, Adobe admitted .

In a security bulletin, the company revealed that uses 19.0.0.207 version of Adobe Flash (or any previous version) is opening Windows, Mac and even Linux to crackers.

A security flaw in the plugin allows hackers able to gain access to computers. Moreover, have been identified “targets and limited uses,” also according to the company statement.

It is a “critical” problem that comes at a time when most of the giants of technology has already left or is to abandon Flash, as is the Google case, Apple, Mozilla and Facebook, opting for more modern encodings such as HTML5.

Adobe announced today the availability a new update, which serves exclusively to fix the vulnerability in question.

They were the experts at Trend Micro who detected the security hole in Flash and many users opted for the prevention, uninstalling the plugin.

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