Tag: Adobe Flash Player Update

The well-known Adobe Flash player has been affected by security vulnerabilities since 2017. Criminals can use them in order to infect users. Since the app has lost its popularity in recent years, Adobe has decided to end the support for Flash by 2020.

Beware the bait

Adobe does offer regular updates from time to time as it tries to keep it as safe as possible.  This prompted some malicious entities to come up with a whole new idea: fake or hijacked websites that will prompt you to install malware which looks like the real deal. The scam works in some cases, as users which are not particularly tech savvy will benevolently install the fake program.

Know the difference

In most cases, the user will visit a hacked site without knowing it. The site will flash a message that strongly encourages them to ‘’install the newest flash player update’’ usually in order to see a video or play a flash game. In most cases users will end up installing some form of malware and they will have to spend valuable time in order to remove it.

How to avoid them?

• Here a few tips that will help you keep your system safe and minimize any risks you can encounter:
• If a random page asks you to update your flash player, don’t do it. Go to the official Adobe website and download the latest update straight from the source.
• As an IT manager or business owner, warn your colleagues and/or employees against this scam. Even one affected PC can compromise an otherwise secure network.
• In order to keep your PC or network secure, you should opt for DNS-based protection services. They will add an additional layer of security, and protect you against several threats.
• Update you flash player often. A recently released update addresses Spectre and Meltdown, two famous hardware vulnerabilities that render many modern PCs vulnerable to attacks.

Henry R. Lares

Henry Lares is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including Tech Crunch and the Huffington Post.  In regards to academics, Henry earned an engineering degree from Apex Technical School. Henry has a passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech.

Adobe Flash Player came in with a new version in order to settle the hardware related security issues dangers as a response to the vulnerabilities in popular CPUs recently revealed.

The program will be able to patch a portion of the way the software works in order to settle some of the vulnerabilities that the hardware might have and be disclosed recently.

No matter the platform, the update will be available at the size of 22 megabytes. If you have not already gotten this update, what are you waiting for? After the download is over, run the installer and get going.

What Does the New Update Bring?

The potential danger of Spectre and Meltdown will be mitigated by the new Flesh Update. By default, the shareable property of the ActionScript ByteArray class will be turned off, as decided by the Adobe Flash team. It aims to possibly eliminate or at least reduce these dangers.

This will happen if users do not get ready to enable it without help. By setting ‘EnableInsecureByteArrayShareable’ from 0 to 1, you will be able to override the feature for Flash Player 30 and above. This change can be carried out only by administrators. The team will also add the timer APIs and jitter to the event.

Administrators will finally be able to use the shareable feature on a per-domain basis after this update. Admins will be able to create a whitelist including exceptions to the rule with the help of ‘EnableInsecureByteArrayShareableDomain.’ However, only the IP addresses and domain names will have the setting applied on. Otherwise, a denial will be received no matter the access request. To include a domain name in the whitelist, you only need to use an asterisk wildcard. Along with this update, everything about Adobe Flash Player has become more accessible and safer.

Francis E. Hagopian

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