{"id":49353,"date":"2012-05-07T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T07:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49353"},"modified":"2012-05-07T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T07:05:12","slug":"adobe-moves-against-flash-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49353-adobe-moves-against-flash-exploit.html","title":{"rendered":"Adobe moves against Flash exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>A vulnerability in Flash that allowed hackers to gain control of a victim\u2019s computer, was the target of an update by <a title=\"Adobe Systems\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/364802-Adobe\">Adobe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are reports that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in active targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking on a malicious file delivered in an e-mail message,&#8221; said Adobe in security message.<\/p>\n<p>The company believes that the exploit targets Flash player on <a title=\"Internet Explorer (IE)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/387173-Internet-Explorer\">Internet Explorer<\/a> for <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> only, though it urged <a title=\"Mac OS X\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360856-Mac-OS-X\">Mac<\/a>, <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> and<a title=\"Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360310-Linux\"> Linux<\/a> users to update their versions of flash as well.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe suggests users update to the 11.2.202.235 version of Flash to remove the exploit risk.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-57428576-83\/system-seizing-flash-attacks-prompt-security-fix-from-adobe\/?tag=mncol\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has implemented a security update to plug a vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2556,11399,397,983,1799,2120,807],"class_list":["post-49353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-flash","tag-android","tag-internet-explorer","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49353"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}