Yet another security hole from Adobe
July 28th, 2009 by Andreas from Xavier Media® in Antivirus & Security, The World According to Xavier. Topics: Adobe, hackers, PDF, Secunia, security hole, WindowsAccording to the Danish security company Secunia as many as 92 percent of all Windows users to be harmed a serious security hole in Adobe Flash. Adobe has announced that it will not have an update ready before Thursday! Users can follow some instructions found on Adobes web site to protect themselves while waiting for the update from Adobe.
This is not the first time when Adobe is having problems with the security.
The security hole is due to a bug in Adobe Flash, which makes it possible to take control of a users computer by using malicious code in a Flash animation. The problem can affect even legitimate sites used by hackers, so extreme caution is recommended to all Windows users using Flash version 9 or version 10. According to Secunia 100 percent of all Windows users got either of the two version of Flash installed.
The problem exists even in Adobe Reader. PDF documents that has an embedded Flash animation can exploit the security hole.
About the authorAndreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.
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