{"id":168819,"date":"2016-06-19T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T11:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=168819"},"modified":"2016-06-19T18:18:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T16:18:30","slug":"immediately-update-or-delete-adobe-flash-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/168819-immediately-update-or-delete-adobe-flash-player.html","title":{"rendered":"Immediately update or delete Adobe Flash Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts are warning Internet users to immediately update or delete Adobe Flash Player to avoid allowing hackers to take control of their\u00a0computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/adobe-flings-flash-fix-for-fresh-apt-target-a-9207\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>According to Bank Info Security<\/strong><\/a>, the warning comes after reports that a \u201czero-day flaw in the web browser plug-in&#8221; was targeted by an &#8220;advanced persistent threat group\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On 16 June,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/security\/products\/flash-player\/apsb16-18.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Adobe released security updates<\/strong><\/a> for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Mac, Linux, and ChromeOS.<\/p>\n<p>These updates address \u201ccritical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-4171 exists in the wild, and is being used in limited, targeted attacks,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Flash<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/168615-critical-security-flaw-in-flash-has-no-patch.html\"><strong>Critical security flaw in Flash has no patch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/148243-stop-using-flash-says-adobe.html\"><strong>Stop using Flash, says Adobe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/90731-38-million-accounts-compromised-in-extensive-adobe-data-breach.html\"><strong>38 million accounts compromised in extensive Adobe data breach<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts are warning Internet users to immediately update or delete Adobe Flash Player to prevent hackers from taking control of their computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":132086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2556,11399,35,1799,11909,807],"class_list":["post-168819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-flash","tag-headline","tag-linux","tag-macintosh","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168831,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168819\/revisions\/168831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}