Adobe issues emergency update to Flash after ransomware attacks

[snoopdoggydog]

Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE.O) issued an emergency update on Thursday to its widely used Flash software for Internet browsers after researchers discovered a security flaw that was being exploited to deliver ransomware to Windows PCs.

The software maker urged the more than 1 billion users of Flash on Windows, Mac, Chrome and Linux computers to update the product as quickly as possible after security researchers said the bug was being exploited in "drive-by" attacks that infect computers with ransomware when tainted websites are visited

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-adobe-systems-cyber-ransomware-idUSKCN0X502K

 

[backstreetboy]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...xploit-used-to-infect-victims-with-ransomware

If 'ol Kev beats you...

 

[sajunky]

It is why Chrome updated silently early this month. They already promised they would not do it on XP anymore.

 

[Arksun]

Why people still use flash is beyond me.

 

[vinodh]

Why people still use flash is beyond me.

Not really beyond you: Some websites refuse to abandon Flash.

 

[Arksun]

Not really beyond you: Some websites refuse to abandon Flash.

That's pretty much what I said.