For some years now that Flash has been known as the “Web scourge” because of its performance problems and security breaches. Even with less than a week to reach the end of the year, another vulnerability was discovered and fortunately patched. Despite the quick fixes that Adobe usually do, technology companies have increasingly endeavored to take other options, such as HTML5.
As with several other vulnerabilities in Flash, Adobe noted that the flaw could potentially allow a hacker to take control of a system and has been exploited in limited attacks on targets.
With this most recent case, we can count 316 bugs Flash Player only in 2015, or six bugs per week .
We have been following the stories that have caused greater pain heads users, as the case team Hacking Team, which had information castings with Flash security flaws that were exploited to provide intelligence services. After correction of the reported bugs, others were found on the same files, and for some time remained unresolved
Remember some of the occasions when the flash was of great concern:.
With a number of news related to the weaknesses of Flash, the companies announced measures to help users to prevent. Since browsers blocking the player by default or detecting early versions of the plugin, the sites abandoning Flash in exchange for HTML5, we saw this year an effort to rid the web of this feature
Some of the stories about it.:
It is clear that to have been widely adopted across the Web for more than a decade, the Flash must still take a while until it becomes completely obsolete . But this seems to be a certain target for this plugin, since the own Adobe announced that in 2016 will change the software name used for creations in flash. Through the new Animate, the creative can export your work to HTML5 and SVG.
Adobe published a bulletin on the 28th about the new critical security update. If you still use Flash in your browser, make sure right now if your plugin is up to date.
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