Adobe’s Flash Flawed; Time to Do Without?

Adobe Flash. It’s everywhere. Not all of us want it, but many are forced into submission simply because it’s weaseled its way into a myriad of applied and common uses. This just makes all the worse the news that a vulnerability in Adobe Flash, Reader, and Acrobat applications is allowing malcontents to exploit computers with these products installed.

Adobe has confirmed that this vulnerability exists and is currently working to remedy it. As it is, many of the major companies that provide antiviral software have already updated their applications to catch one of the exploits, which said exploit is carried out by way of a PDF file sent in an email; this PDF-equipped email is generally targeted to attack corporations rather than personal accounts.

Continue reading over at dzone...