Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
Flash was an integral part of the internet in years past, but it has also been a drag on performance and the source of a great many security vulnerabilities. Today, HTML5 is a better way to get the same sort of interactive content running on the web, and it works ...
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
The slow and inexorable slide to a world without Flash continues, with Google revealing plans to phase out support for Adobe's Flash Player in its Chrome browser for all but a handful of websites. And the company expects the changes to roll out by the fourth quarter of 2016.
While it ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
I've been asked a lot lately about uninstalling Flash in Firefox and why users are still being served the Flash versions on Youtube, for example, and requiring them to install it before displaying the video. I was asked again today and thought I would quickly post something about it.
The easiest ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2015
Security researchers nabbed $552,500 in bounties at this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest, demonstrating exploits against the top four Web browsers, plus Adobe Reader and Flash Player.
On Thursday, the second and final day of the competition, the star of the show was South Korean security researcher JungHoon Lee, aka "lokihardt," who ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-0313) exists in Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. We are aware of reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild via drive-by-download attacks against systems running Internet Explorer ...
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