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Hackers abuse another Adobe Flash zero-day to attack thousands of web users with redirects
MacDailyNews ^
| Monday, February 2, 2015
Posted on 02/03/2015 12:12:35 PM PST by Swordmaker
“Adobe is scurrying to patch the third Flash zero-day of the year, with criminal hackers already using a previously unknown and unpatched vulnerability to launch attacks against thousands of web denizens, security researchers warned today,” Thomas Fox-Brewster reports for Forbes. “Those attacks hit visitors to popular video sharing site Dailymotion, with other sites thought to be affected as the infections were launched via advertisements that will likely be resident on many other web pages.”
“Visitors to any affected site would have been redirected to an attacker-controlled page where an exploit kit would attempt to compromise the target system by targeting the Adobe Flash zero-day,” Fox-Brewster reports. “The vulnerability is in all supported forms of Flash, up to the latest versions for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macs.”
“Adobe said in its own advisory [that] it’s expecting a fix for this ‘critical vulnerability’ will be released this week,” Fox-Brewster reports. “But this fresh zero-day is yet another nail in the coffin for Flash, which has been covering off flaws in its software like crazy in 2015. It’s also had to cope with the ignominy of being ditched by Google, which chose to use HTML5 video for its YouTube service.”
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: adobe; adobeflash; flash; internet; maccult; viruses
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; altair; ...
Adobe DOES IT AGAIN. . . another ZERO DAY EXPLOIT that effects both Windows and Macs! Do we really need Flash Player? — PING!
Apple & Windows Security Warning Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:17:01 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: All
Flash, the Typhoid Mary of Browser Plug Ins. ..
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:19:07 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
I hate Flash. It wants to update every thirty-four seconds, and it won’t shut up.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:20:42 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the fascists.)
To: Swordmaker
Flash. Good animation platform. Terrible at everything else.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:23:18 PM PST
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: Swordmaker
I have zero-day security software installed so I’m not affected.
HTML 5 is set to replace Flash and Netflix is running Microsoft Silverlight
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:25:56 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Crazieman
For playing movies, until recently acceptable browser plug-in alternatives didn’t exist.
That’s now changing.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:27:36 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Netflix is running Microsoft Silverlight
How does Netflix deal with Macs?
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:42:15 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Dr. Sivana
You can run Silverlight on a Mac. I think Netflix is also looking at HTML5, but I don’t have a source for that.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:46:58 PM PST
by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: Swordmaker
Hackers abuse...
Abuse? What happened to "exploit"?
To: Swordmaker
I got a message Saturday and Sunday that someone was rewriting script on my iMac? I should have grabbed a screen capture but it rattled me and just shut down
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:56:28 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
To: Swordmaker
I’m sure glad that Steve Jobs kept Flash off the iPhone! Flash is trash!
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posted on
02/03/2015 2:07:28 PM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: goldstategop
Netflix is slowly killing off Silverlight & switching to HTML5, with Safari support starting today
http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/03/netflix-is-slowly-killing-off-silverlight-switching-to-html5-with-safari-support-starting-today/
The streaming media giant today announced that it’s switching to HTML5 video in Safari on OS X Yosemite, Apple’s new operating system for Mac. That means the Mac crowd will be able to stream Netflix videos without installing any external plugins — they’ll be able to just load the page and start watching.
By switching over to HTML5, Netflix majorly reduces the CPU load required to stream video. On laptops, that means longer battery life. Netflix says a MacBook Air streaming 1080p Netflix content using HTML5 will last two hours longer than it would with Silverlight.
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posted on
02/03/2015 2:11:47 PM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Swordmaker
However the attack vector used in every single exploit is ... a browser !
In other words, what makes you think the code in your browser is safe ?
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posted on
02/03/2015 2:20:44 PM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
To: tubebender
I got a message Saturday and Sunday that someone was rewriting script on my iMac? I should have grabbed a screen capture but it rattled me and just shut down I wouldn't worry too much about those, they're malware phishing adware popups from someone like MacCleaner. Apple does not have such a warning Alert.
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posted on
02/03/2015 2:44:54 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
I hate flash with a passion.
What a self stacking bloated POS.
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posted on
02/03/2015 2:50:16 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: SecondAmendment
In other words, what makes you think the code in your browser is safe ? On a Mac, Safari runs in a sandbox. It should not allow anything to escape and damage or infect the system.
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posted on
02/03/2015 2:50:39 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
On a Mac, Safari runs in a sandbox. It should not allow anything to escape and damage or infect the system.Bzzz ... thanks for playing !
Anyone else ?
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posted on
02/03/2015 4:46:03 PM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
To: SecondAmendment
Anyone else ? Why do you think you know more about Macs than I do?
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posted on
02/03/2015 4:54:03 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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