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Flash Vulnerabilities
What type of risks do I expose myself to by enabling flash in the browser?
Web developers or online game developers who can use those vulnerabilities to crash my computer or exploit it by downloading ...
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What was behind the surge of Adobe Flash Player vulnerabilities/patches in 2015?
It's no secret that 2015 was a rough year, security-wise, for Adobe's Flash Player. Aside from Adobe itself beginning to essentially deprecate Flash development largely due to Flash Player's ...
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How do researchers identify vulnerability in closed source software? [closed]
Came across an article, it is about the new BadWinmail vulnerability in Outlook. Being a closed-source software, how do researchers manage to point out that Outlook is not sandboxing the flash?
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ClamAV Flagging application .swf files as malware
ClamAV scans on our application servers are identifying some of our legitimate Flex .swf files as malicious, specifically citing CVE-2015-5548 (specifically, "Swf.Exploit.CVE_2015_5548 FOUND"). ...
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Click to play plugins vs. AdBlock?
Reading through articles like Faked Flash-based ads... I'm wondering what is a better way to keep yourself safe from malvertising. Many people suggest setting your browser's plugin settings to "Click ...
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Secure Flash with click to play plugins in the enterprise
In the light of recent repeated critical Flash vulnerabilities there are recommendations to use browser plugins like click-to-play to prevent unnecessary Flash content from automatically loading with ...
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