Another Critical Flash security patch

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Art Stone

CERT has just sent out another Critical warning about a new flaw that allows malicious Flash content to take control of any computer running Flash…

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-16.html

There is also an iPhone/iPad update that is security related.   Busy day today

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3 Responses to Another Critical Flash security patch

  1. RadioListener says:
    August 11, 2010 at 9:57 pm

    Weird, this sort of thing is usually all over the internet by now, but I’m reading about it here, first.

    • Art Stone says:
      August 12, 2010 at 9:56 am

      I’m on the CERT mailing list. The emergency update to the iPhone is related to the display of rogue pdf files.

      It’s interesting that Apple and Adobe are fighting over flash, and suddenly all these flaws in Adobe products are uncovered. Probably a coincidence.

  2. Hesperus says:
    August 12, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    Simply, where ever possible, cyber-criminals need to pay maximally heavy penalties. Long, hard time now.

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