Today, Adobe flash Player is
very much known for its vulnerabilities. Many of users are not aware of this type
of dangers. A large number of vendors are ignoring such situations. Actually,
they are unaware of the case. The unknown vulnerabilities can damage you
browsers or computer easily. Even your latest quality Anti-virus only comes
second best in this situation.
The dangers had already
dictated by big developers. Giants like Google and Apple already taken
necessary steps in order to protect themselves. They had blocked Adobe Flash
Player as a plug in; instead of that, they are using their own software.
Mozilla Firefox also taken secures steps and blocked the plug in to avoid
problems that would occur on the pages. An updated latest version of Adobe Flash
Player can end up this blocking. On the other side, top browsers such as Google
Chrome, Opera and Safari allow older version of Adobe Flash Player. Regular
update of the software always gives more security to the vendors.
Vulnerabilities are not issue
for vendors only, it worries developers too. Computer developers like of
Microsoft and Macintosh well aware of such problems. The fact is they dictated
the vulnerabilities of older version of Abode Flash Player (16.0.0 296). Experts
of Microsoft Company dictated the unknown vulnerabilities. Means, the vendors
who are using this version are under threat of hackers. Experts launched an
updated version of flash player to secure their users.
In 2015, the attacks came on
the month of January. It went worse as the hackers targeted the online
advertisements. The situation called as Zero- Day vulnerabilities. There are
not less than 18 Zero-Day vulnerabilities in last two years. Three of those targeted
Adobe Flash Player.
What are Zero-day
vulnerabilities? Zero-Day vulnerability is nothing but the cyber attacks by the
team of hackers. Those problems cannot be resolved easily. Those are not patch
or fix problems. According to experts, those are holes of security for users.
The hackers are always seem to ready to exploit such holes. The dangers would
come anytime without giving information to the vendors. The last zero-Day
vulnerability came for Adobe flash player on July, 2015, known as
CVE-2015-5123. Hackers had stolen almost 400 GB data. Experts of the company dictated
that and resolved the situation.
If you get attacks of
vulnerabilities, you have nothing to do but wait. You have to wait for developers’
reaction on this. They may take little time to fix those problems and updated
the software. In fact, Microsoft Company fixes or patched security problems on
every second Tuesday of each month. Adobe flash player is also the part of
their development. So, to avoid such problems and hazards, vendors need to
update their Adobe Flash Player on regular basis.
