The updates are said to address critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to penetrate a vulnerable system, allowing a remote attacker to execute code on a victim’s computer and take control over the device.Īdobe recommends that users of the Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows, Macintosh and Linux update to Adobe Flash Player version 26.0.0.137 as soon as possible. The upshot of this is that when Adobe releases new security patches for Adobe Flash Player, it would be very sensible indeed for its users to sit up and take notice.Įarlier today Adobe issued a security advisory detailing updates it has released for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. Quite why Flash has been targeted so often is open to some debate, but the mere fact that it has suggests that it will continue to be for some time to come. Flash is closed, proprietary software controlled by Adobe and it has been plagued with software vulnerabilities and serious flaws over many years. Thirdly, there has been a long history of malicious hackers finding critical security holes in Adobe Flash Player, and building their attacks into exploit kits for anyone to deploy. It doesn’t matter if a hacker doesn’t have a zero-day exploit to throw at your Adobe Flash Player if you haven’t been bothering to keep it protected against known vulnerabilities. There’s only one thing more attractive to a malicious hacker than widely-used ubiquitous software, and that’s widely-used ubiquitous software that hasn’t been kept updated with the latest patches. Users may have failed to configure updates properly, or chosen to ignore reminders to update the software promptly when a new security update is released. Secondly, the version of Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer may be out-of-date.
Malicious hackers can rely upon a large number of people having Flash installed, making it a target for attack. Many users may have installed it long ago in order to access Flash-based media content online, such as videos.
One of the favourite pieces of software for malicious hackers to target on users’ computers is Adobe Flash Player.įirstly, Adobe Flash Player is on an awful lot of computers.
Critical security holes keep being found in Adobe Flash Player.
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