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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Dear Adobe Flash, why won't you DIE, DIE, DIE?

Earlier this month, security outfit FireEye's 'FireEye as a Service' researchers out in Singapore discovered and reported on a phishing campaign that was found to be exploiting a zero-day in Adobe Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2015-3113). That campaign has been well and truly active for a while now, with attacking emails including links to compromised sites serving up benign content if you are lucky and a malicious version of the Adobe Flash Player complete with the exploit code if you are not. I'm with Brian Krebs who, just the other week, wrote about how he has "spent the better part of the last month running a little experiment to see how much I would miss Adobe's buggy and insecure Flash Player software if I removed it from my systems altogether. Turns out, not so much." C'mon folks, be honest now, do you really need Flash, do you really you it and would you really miss it? Let's all do the decent thing and shoot this sick beyond belief monstrosity in the head...
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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