By Tom Spring August 16, 2017 Few times have there been technologies so reviled and celebrated at the same time as Adobe Flash. Since its introduction as Macromedia Flash Player in the mid-’90s, the technology has helped shape what the web has become today. At the same time, few internet technologies have united so many wanting to kick it to the curb.
In 2020, in collaboration with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, Adobe will retire the much maligned Flash Player. A large part of the problem, experts say, despite progress in hardening its attack surface, is that it’s not secure enough. Flash continues to be a massive attack target that needs to go, they said. Since 2005, it has amassed 1,033 unique CVE entries, above, more than Microsoft’s Windows XP or Internet Explorer, according to CVEDetails.com.
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