Senator calls on US Government to start killing Adobe Flash now

  • 26 July 2018
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26th July, 2018 By Graham Cluley
 

 Security-conscious IT administrators around the globe know that they shouldn’t really have Adobe Flash in their organisation.
 
For years, researchers have bemoaned Adobe Flash Player for being riddled with critical security holes, commonly exploited and fundamentally broken.
 
It’s not as if Adobe Flash has a future.
 
Last year, Adobe announced that it will be no longer be updating or distributing Flash Player at the end of 2020 and is encouraging content creators to migrate to non-Flash formats.
 
Read that again. After 2020, there won’t be any more security updates for Adobe Flash Player. Which means that if new remotely exploitable vulnerabilities are found (as they surely will be), it won’t matter how long you wait until Adobe gets around to distributing a patch, as it won’t be coming.
 
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