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Flash Security Hole

Posted by Hemos on from the who-needs-security dept.

otterpop378 wrote to us about a From report on CNN about a new security hole in Flash. Evidently, it's pretty big, as Macromedia wants everyone to update - sounds like the sandbox isn't quite working as it should.

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  1. conspiracy theorist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The conspiracy theorist in me can't help but think this security update -- which doesn't specify anything other than a buffer overflow -- is an attempt to get people to upgrade to the latest version of Flash, which I believe is now required to properly interact with the new Macromedia.com.

    1. Re:conspiracy theorist by Khalidz0r · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Heh, a big company wouldn't give up their reputation in security to simply get you to update, there are better ways to do that.

      The worst thing a company would think of doing is announcing that their software is not secure, for whatever reason.

      Khalid

      --
      "What you 'seek' is what you get!"
  2. Any easy way to temporaily disable flash in IE? by Palos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is kind of offtopic, but with a lot of sites using flash for ads that adblockers don't seem to block well, is there a way to disable it temporaily easily? I've seen some sites that show how to get rid of it, but that just brings up a popup anytime you go to a site with it. I swear 95% of the flash out there now is crap, but the other 5% is cool games I want to play :)