BERLIN (Reuters) – After an accumulation of dangerous vulnerabilities, the criticism of high-use multimedia software Adobe has intensified. The makers of the Firefox web browser blocked the implementation of Flash on Tuesday tentatively default. Facebook’s head of security Alex Stamos called the flash vendors Adobe on, quite abandon the software.
Flash is often used on the web for the display of video content, 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 of three vulnerabilities. Reason is the 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 on Tuesday released the next Flash update that should cram so far become known vulnerabilities. / So / DP / jha
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