Criticism of vulnerabilities: Mozilla blocked Flash software | tagesschau.de – tagesschau.de

The Flash Player is the default software for playing Internet video. But it is regarded as notoriously error-prone. After a series of dangerous vulnerabilities Mozilla has now Flash initially blocked -. And the security manager of Facebook called the From

After an accumulation of dangerous vulnerabilities has become the criticism of the much-used multimedia software Adobe Flash Player tightened. The makers of web browser Firefox, Mozilla, blocked the execution of Flash provisionally default. Facebook’s head of security Alex Stamos called the flash vendors Adobe on, quite abandon the software

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Flash is the web very often for displaying video content used, the software is however criticized for being error-prone for a long time. As more and new vulnerabilities are discovered, they must be updated frequently. In recent days, there was an extraordinary series with three become known vulnerabilities

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If the problems of Mozilla using the Flash Player also affect the supply of have since also the live stream and videos capitalize on our site the Flash plugin. This can not be changed at present. To see the contents anyway, users must enable the Flash Player. By clicking a video opens in the top bar a notice with the appropriate question.

Revealed these problems have been by a hacker attack on the Italian monitoring software provider Hacking Team. It also came about previously unknown Flash vulnerabilities in circulation, on which the company built up its monitoring programs for security agencies. Adobe published promptly thereafter a flash update that should cram so far become known vulnerabilities.