Linux, Windows, or Mac: You need to patch Adobe Flash

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Dec 10, 2009

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Almost all the video on the Web is in Flash, and we
just take it for granted. That’s a mistake. Like any other popular
application, it can be an easy way for a cracker to hack into your
computer.

“Take Adobe Flash’s latest round of patches. Adobe doesn’t say a
lot about exactly what it’s fixing in its security advisory, but
out of the seven security bugs they’re fixing, six of the repairs
are on problems that “could potentially lead to code
execution.””


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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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