80% of Users Run an EOL Version of Adobe Flash

  • 28 October 2015
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By Catalin Cimpanu    28 Oct 2015
 
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Very old Flash versions put users at risk

 
Adobe has been facing a lot of criticism lately due to a poor and slow patching mechanism used for its Flash Player application, which according to recent reports, still runs on over 90% of Internet-connected PCs.
 
Surprising or not, this 90% number is going to seem a dangerous figure when you couple it with a recent Secunia (now part of Flexera Software) report, which claims that 80% of all Flash installations are running an EOL version.
 
EOL stands for End Of Life and is a term used in computer software for applications to which its maker has stopped releasing updates and security patches. It basically means "really old" in geek speak.
 
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