Adobe: ‘Patch your Flash software immeditely’

[AlexGoesHigh]

Until DRM is added to HTML5 flash & silverlight are not going anywhere. Video streaming sites require DRM for obvious reasons.

I don't understand why Adobe don't write an auto update utility where they can push updates as required.

Afaik EME (Encypted Media Extensions) is in the works, unfortunately it's being made with help from Adobe

Edit

Seems EME is already here but because Firefox is open source Mozilla won't add support for it, only IE, Safari & Chrome support it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions

the main build of firefox will have EME enabled, but mozilla will provide a stable build without it, everything else is still on par with the main build, this was posted here a couple of months ago, also EME is already in use by major sites, with it, is the only way to play netflix on linux, not an ideal solution though

 

and in other news twitch is now deploying HTML5 chat support, the less thing use flash the better, hopefully they enable HTML5 player soon http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/06/html5-chat-is-live/

[linuxfan66]

the main build of firefox will have EME enabled, but mozilla will provide a stable build without it, everything else is still on par with the main build, this was posted here a couple of months ago, also EME is already in use by major sites, with it, is the only way to play netflix on linux, not an ideal solution though

and in other news twitch is now deploying HTML5 chat support, the less thing use flash the better, hopefully they enable HTML5 player soon http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/06/html5-chat-is-live/

that makes me happy...

[evilarceus]

HTML5 PLZ

 

Doubt the malware will work on Mac

[RagnarokDel]

Another solution to that issue, dont have flash.

[PortentousLad]

whenever a flash update pops up I assume the worst so I updated yesterday, but thanks for the heads-up.

[dalekphalm]

Another solution to that issue, dont have flash.

Possible for a home user, but for many, that is not a "solution", because Flash is mandatory for one reason or another.

[RH00D]

Possible for a home user, but for many, that is not a "solution", because Flash is mandatory for one reason or another.

 

One good example is the company I work for, Avaya, uses Adobe Connect for recording internal training sessions so that they can be played back, again through Adobe Connect, so that they technically only need to actually do the presentation once then anybody else can just watch the recording. Aaaaand it requires Flash, of course. You might be thinking "Why not just record them as a regular video file?" Well, Adobe Connect is actually a very powerful system and does a lot more than simple recording of the sessions. It just sucks that Flash is so vulnerable. -.-

[GoldSrc]

What would it take for Adobe to fix Flash, or to give it a quick death?

[SIGSEGV]

GO AWAY FLASH! NOBODY LOVES YOU!

[dalekphalm]

What would it take for Adobe to fix Flash, or to give it a quick death?

Well they constantly fix it - that's why there's a new flash update every week or two. But, like any complex piece of software that is so integrated with the Web, hackers are constantly finding new exploits.

[GoldSrc]

Well they constantly fix it - that's why there's a new flash update every week or two. But, like any complex piece of software that is so integrated with the Web, hackers are constantly finding new exploits.

Yeah, you're right, but damn, Flash has having problems like this since I remember lol.

[dalekphalm]

Yeah, you're right, but damn, Flash has having problems like this since I remember lol.

Well, it's a good target for hackers. Same with Java, who also has a history of extreme security exploits.

 

It's third party, used everywhere, yet not built into the OS (which means it's inherently less secure).