Thursday, March 31, 2016

The most dangerous software in the world: Criminals love this tool – CHIP Online

The result: Of the 15 in 2015 most commonly exploited vulnerabilities infected 13 in the Flash Player. Who uses the plug-in and does not keep up to date, is therefore higher than average risk of becoming a victim of an attack. The other two vulnerabilities related to Internet Explorer and the Flash counterpart Microsoft Silverlight.
The fact that the Flash Player is such a popular target for attackers, is also due to the wide distribution. Although the plug-in is increasingly less important on the Web, it belongs on countless systems remains the standard.

are problematic especially old versions of Flash: At least once a month Adobe released a security update that includes all known vulnerabilities. Since the vulnerabilities in this moment even publicly, develop appropriate programmer attacks. Within a few days this land attacks in the exploit kits and take users to target, use an unpatched Flash version.

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