Adobe finds another ‘critical’ flaw in Flash, Steve Jobs smiles smugly

Hey, guess what? Adobe has found one more serious security flaw in Flash . Surprised? Neither are we. And we will already hear the iOS fanboys warming up their commenting fingers. The vulnerability affects all platforms, including Android, though only attacks on Windows had been seen within the wild up to now. Identical to last month’s exploit , this one is spreading via malicious .swf files embedded in Office documents, only this time it’s Word rather than Excel being targeted (a hacker’s gotta keep it fresh, of course ). Once more Reader and Acrobat also are vulnerable, but attacks might be thwarted using Reader’s Protected Mode. When exactly Adobe plans on plugging this hole is anyone’s guess. Until then, might we recommend you become friends with just a little browser extension called FlashBlock?

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