Illustration.. An important Adobe Flash Player on security vulnerability was spotted and exploited by spyware Hacking Team editor. Illustration. DR
After the discovery of a new security flaw in Adobe Flash, Firefox decided to block the default module preventing the loading of videos on the internet.
Adobe Flash is the must-read module for interactive content on Web pages including videos. Often need to perform updates because of faults, Flash was questioned last week after hackers have exploited any of its vulnerabilities, as Hacking Team, publisher of spyware. Any malicious user might Firefox according install malware on computers and steal data.
Firefox has decided to block the module “until Flash launches a new version invulnerable to vulnerabilities exploited “. However, users of this browser can override this block by manually activating the module. Firefox advises users performing this operation to prioritize the sites they trust.
According to the latest estimates W3Counter, Firefox browser is used by 10% of Internet users worldwide, far behind Chrome Google but neck and neck with Internet Explorer and Apple Safari.
End of Adobe Flash perspective
Decision Firefox succeeded the tweets security officer of Facebook, Alex Stamos, who demanded the end of Adobe Flash. Mariners must guard against the possible abandonment of Flash because of its failures and consider modifications of their operating systems to withstand any encoding format.
Already in 2010, Steve Jobs, Apple boss was justified in an open letter that the Iphone and the Ipad would not be open to the Flash module because of its complexity and its loopholes.
These declarations of hostility toward Adobe Flash is to be compared with a movement called “Occupy Flash” that work for the abandonment of this module, which would anyway not adapted to new uses of the Internet such as mobile, requiring lighter tools .
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