Serious Flash vulns menace at least 10,000 websites
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| Researchers from Google and a well-known security firm have documented
| serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands
| of websites susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of
| visitors.
|
| [...]
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| "Lots of people are vulnerable, and right now there are no protections
| available other than to remove those SWFs and wait for the authoring tools
| and/or Flash player to be updated," says Alex Stamos, one of the book's
| authors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/21/flash_vulnerability_menace/
ActiveX, Flash, QuickTime... proprietary menace on the World Wide Web.
Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0
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| To my surprise, in my RHEL 5.1 current clone of choice (StartCom AS-5.0.1),
| the "Plugin Finder Service" embedded in Firefox just worked!
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/12/23/09/04/25-adobe-flash-player-9-0-115-0
Related:
Flash: The Next Open Source Debate?
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| All of this raises the question "Is Flash Open Enough?". This
| same question was asked of Java for many years before the its
| open sourcing in 2006.
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http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/01/flash-open
Phishing fraudsters get flashy
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| Fraudsters are starting to use Flash-based content instead of
| regular HTML on phishing websites.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/05/phish_flash/
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