[Drago]

Yet another Flash Player attack/flaw. Most patched software in history?!? See also: http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/08/hacking-team-zero-day-flash-exploit/?ncid=rss_truncated I am looking to drop Flash from my systems all together...Krebs tried it for a month: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/a-month-without-adobe-flash-player/

[Drago]

Clickable links from above:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/08/hacking-team-zero-day-flash-exploit/?ncid=rss_truncated

and

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/a-month-without-adobe-flash-player/

[RickGee]

I uninstalled Flash (outside of what is built into Google’s Chrome) around January of this year. I got tired of all the updates on two hard drives, plus having to download or update the Chrome browser.

This is on a Macintosh. When I am browsing using the Safari or Firefox browser and hit a Flash link, more and more sites will see that I don’t have Flash installed and provide the same information via HTML. If they don’t do that, there is an error and if I still want to see the content, I paste the link into Google Chrome.

Why don’t I use Chrome all the time? Because Google has the reputation of building up a profile of all your activities, i.e. spying on you. I’m not comfortable with that and I have various ad-suppressing and anti-tracking add-ons in all browsers.

I’ve had no urge to re-install Flash.

[RayChuang88]

I know that Google supposedly fixed the problem by pushing out Flash 18.0.0.203 late yesterday for Chrome users. I wonder has Adobe made 18.0.0.203 available for the Flash plugins used in Internet Explorer and Firefox?

[Excellence]

Pinging for your input.

[KoRn]

Probably an exploitable flaw in the recent update they pushed out. Flash seemed to be less exploitable when it was under Macromedia. I could be wrong.

[TChad]

Yet Another Adobe Flash Zero-Day Vulnerability

Adobe should change its name to Security-Holes-R-Us.

It's their business model. Gotta scare users into logging onto the Adobe website to download the latest Flash/Reader/etc. in the hope that users won't remember to uncheck the "INSTALL SOME GARBAGE SOFTWARE THAT PAYS OUR BILLS" check box.

But I use Flash every day, so I play the game.

Download the latest version of Flash for Windows here:
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Check your installed version here:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

If you want to stop Flash from running automatically when a page is loaded, you may be able to change your browser plugin settings for Flash to "Ask to Activate" instead of "Always Activate." It's more secure, and web pages with lots of Flash content are less annoying.

[Varmint Al]

If you use FireFox, there are many alternates to using Adobe Flash. Here is a short list.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al