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New Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities Being Actively Exploited On Windows and OS X

Posted by Soulskill on from the something-to-be-said-for-consistency dept.

Orome1 writes "Adobe has pushed out an emergency Flash update that solves two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0633 and CVE-2013-0634) that are being actively exploited to target Windows and OS X users, and is urging users to implement it as soon as possible. According to a security bulletin released on Thursday, the OS X exploit targets Flash Player in Firefox or Safari via malicious Flash content hosted on websites, while Windows users are targeted with Microsoft Word documents delivered as an email attachments which contain malicious Flash content. Adobe has also announced its intention of adding new protections against malicious Flash content embedded in Microsoft Office documents to its next feature release of Flash Player."

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  1. Die Flash, Die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know many will rush to disagree with me but Flash cannot die soon enough...

    1. Re:Die Flash, Die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is German for "the Flash, the".

  2. Re:Huh? by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Who in their right mind opens a Word doc from and unknown source

    The idiot secretary in the next office over, or the next floor down.

    Then the payload mines her email addresses and sends you "Minutes from meeting" or some similar crap. So now instead of having an email from an unknown person you get an email from someone you'd expect to get word documents from. Hopefully you are in a company that has decent A/V on incoming mail, most small businesses don't.

  3. Re:And replace it with what? by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yep. HTML 5 can offer hardware acceleration on pretty much any mobile device.

    The reason for flash was that Java was an ugly POS and people did not want to wiat a full minute for their ugly applets to load while flash was all nice and pretty and loaded instantly.

    Flash also exists because of IE. Old IE I may add as IE 9 and IE 10 got their act together and support the HTML 5 video tags. When IE 10 comes out for Windows 7 and XP goes EOL we will see a shift in websites catering to HTML 5 users making flash obsolete for all but the conservative businesses.

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  4. Re:And replace it with what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a reason Flash is the world's most popular online multimedia platform.

    Yes. DRM.