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NCSC Warns Admins Not to Disable Updates to Keep Flash Alive in 2021
A dire warning came from UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), advising IT administrators not to disable the update mechanism to keep Adobe Flash past its end-of-life date, set for the end ...
Adobe to Remove Flash Download Links, Recommends People Uninstall It Now
Adobe is taking further steps in its Flash-dismantling process scheduled to take place by the end of 2020, and said users should uninstall it long before the end-of-life date. Removing Flash from ...
February 2019 Patch Tuesday – 74 Vulns, 20 Critical, Exchange 0-day, Adobe Vulns
This month’s Patch Tuesday is very large, with 74 vulns being addressed with 20 labeled as critical. Fifteen of these critical vulns are in the Scripting Engine and browsers, with the remainder ...
Mozilla Announces It Will Disable Support for Flash Plugin in Firefox 69
Mozilla has announced that it will disable support for the Adobe Flash Player plugin by default in version 69 of its Firefox web browser. On 11 January, Mozilla senior software engineer Jim ...
September 2018 Patch Tuesday – 61 Vulns, FragmentSmack, Hyper-V Escape
In this month’s Patch Tuesday release there are 61 vulnerabilities patched with 17 Criticals. Out of the criticals, most are browser-related, with the rest including Windows, Hyper-V, and .net Framework. A vulnerability ...
Senator calls on US Government to start killing Adobe Flash now
For some companies eradicating Adobe Flash content is going to be a significant job. And it may be an even bigger challenge for very large organisations, such as the US Government. The ...
Flash to be stopped in Office 365
If you are one of the few Office 365 users who embeds Silverlight, Shockwave, or Flash content in your documents, your pastime will soon be a thing of the past. Over a ...
Blocks for Flash and others coming to Office 365
If you make use of Flash or Silverlight in your day-to-day activities, you may need to have a word with IT. For everyone else, your Office 365 experience is about to become ...
‘FakeUpdates’ campaign leverages multiple website platforms
Browser update? Do not trust, and do verify before downloading potential malware. Categories: Social engineering Threat analysis Tags: chromeChtonicfake updatesFakeUpdatesfirefoxflashJoomlamalvertisingmalwareratSquarespacewordpress (Read more...) The post ‘FakeUpdates’ campaign leverages multiple website platforms appeared first ...
Exploiting Insecure crossdomain.xml to Bypass Same Origin Policy (ActionScript PoC)
Adobe Flash is among the most popular browser plugins and also ships by default with a couple of popular web browsers. Its widespread prevalence has made it a frequent target of attacks ...
