Adobe Patches Flash Bug Exploit

It was just yesterday that we reported on a potential Flash zero-day vulnerability that has been discovered after a hack, and thankfully, the folks over at Adobe have been pretty quick to react to the situation since finding that bit of news out for themselves, and have just rolled out a patch to squash that particular bug. This patch will cover the likes of Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

Adobe did mention that “these updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.” The Hacking Team that is based in Italy did reveal over the weekend that its systems had been broken into, and as a result from that, approximately 400GB of sensitive data managed to make their way online. The firm itself does not have a squeaky clean image, taking into consideration how it has sold software to governments worldwide – software that lets them snoop on citizens.

Among the “luminaries” include the US as well as Sudan, so go figure. Good to the folks over at Adobe for reacting so swiftly. After all, you can never quite tell just which particular person is going to take advantage of the situation and perform a malicious act, do you?

Edwin Kee
Categories: Computers
Tags: adobe, flash, Hacking