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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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Will browser isolation solution protect our enterprise from Flash and JavaScript exploits and fileless malware?
Since we didn't see any pentest done to bypass on such solution, we don't really know if it worth purchasing such type of solution. Will this really protect us from Flash and JavaScript exploits, ...
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chrome invisible flash document
I have it so flash doesn't start on page load for security and performance. Lately I have been noticing That some pages will load with a flash document that takes up the full screen. I can see it as ...
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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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Secure keyboard entry with JavaScript or Flash?
Is it possible to perform secure keyboard entry (similar to what is offered in the OS X Terminal app) using only web technologies and/or Flash?
If not, is there any way to more broadly guarantee ...
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find if 0-day flash bug was exploited (on a particular machine)
There have been several critical 0-day exploits in the past days/weeks in Flash alone. Nobody knows how long the 0-days have been exploited, and it is reasonable to expect that there are 0-days being ...
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How is it possible that a virus can infect the system if the browser is started with non-admin rights
If I open my web browser (for example firefox) in Windows 7 with activated UAC as normal user (non admin) a virus - which uses a security leak in my browser - will only gets privileges of the normal ...
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Is a browser with disabled scripts and disabled java enough against malware
Is a browser like Firefox with disabled scripts (for example via a plugin like no-script) and disabled Java enough to be protected against drive-by-malware from the internet.
Of course this does not ...
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Where do I get started in terms of learning how to exploit Java and Flash vulnerabilities? or browser exploitation in general
Another Java 0day was discovered today which got me thinking how browser exploitation (remote execution on clients browser) works.
I am unable to find any books or resources online about browser ...
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Are flash cookies still a threat and that persistent?
One year (or more) ago flash cookies were really a problem, because they could not be deleted from within a browser. They were not managed by the browser but by the flash player. Flash cookies were ...
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Is silverlight and Java running on the web browser capable of saving "state" into the user's local machines?
I am aware that even after we have cleared our cache and cookies, websites can still save files/information into our computer using Flash (Flash ever cookies),
I was wondering does other plugins like ...
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Is flash or javascript a bigger security concern? [closed]
Many flash website whitelisting extensions for chrome (such as flashblock and flashcontrol) use javascript in order to selectively block Adobe Flash from functioning. Thus, In order to get this ...
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