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Adobe Flash Exploit Could Log Keystrokes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-thought-adobe-was-good-in-a-wreck dept.

Kenyon Lessi writes "Adobe has issued three critical security updates, one of which is designed to stop a problem in the way the Flash player interacts with browsers, which could result in users' keystrokes being transmitted to attackers. The problem affect Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.45.0, 8.0.34.0 and 7.0.69.0, as well as their earlier versions running on all platforms."

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  1. Re:Always So Negative by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds kind of like the "exploit" in Second Life, where you can script objects to listen for commands from users, which necessarily allows you to script listening bugs -- just have it listen for whatever people say near it, and IM the results back to you. I actually wrote a few of these and ended up finding out not-too-cool things people were saying about me.

    Anyone know if they've fixed this somehow?

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    Apology to Ubuntu forum.