Adobe Issues Emergency Patch for Flash Zero-Day Flaw

[Guest]

The latest Adobe Flash update includes a patch for a zero-day flaw that was being used to target and possibly spy on Syrian dissidents.

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[royalcrown]

Flash is just on huge security flaw...a virtual kick me sign on your computer's back...ugh.

 

[virtualban]

with great power comes great responsibility... therefore, reduce freaking the power needed. There is no need for a plug-in such as that to have so many rights and powers over the system, for what it is meant to do most of the time at least.

 

[Shin-san]

I'm glad I started using a Flash blocker. At first it was ads with sound, then it was MySpace pages blasting music I didn't like through speakers, and now it's security

 

[rokit]

"Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Lab discovered the zero-day exploits"

Russian company that lives on selling Antivirus suddenly discovers a vulnerability lol.

Anyway Flash is mess, it was known long time ago, one of their past developers said that they have so many workarounds there that you can't even easily add something new. Their first version was the biggest garbage though. When will WebGL/CL and HTML5 video mature already? Even though they will obviously contain some vulnerabilties: 1) different departmen, one thing for video another for games. 2) each browser is using different backends(atleast gstreamer is opensource, means fast fixes) that are quite good comparing to flash and since there are more than 1 realization attackers would have to do more work.

 

[knowom]

Adobe Trash....brought to you by Bloatoshop!

 

[royalcrown]

I'm glad I started using a Flash blocker. At first it was ads with sound, then it was MySpace pages blasting music I didn't like through speakers, and now it's security

+1 on the myspace thing...I hated that crap too, now those ads.