Stop Me If You’ve Heard this Before…. Update Adobe Flash NOW To Stop Active Exploit

Adobe today put out let another security bulletin to advise users to update to the latest version of Flash. Here’s the reason behind this bulletin:

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. These updates address a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-3113) that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Adobe is aware of reports that CVE-2015-3113 is being actively exploited in the wild via limited, targeted attacks. Systems running Internet Explorer for Windows 7 and below, as well as Firefox on Windows XP, are known targets.

So you have been warned. Download the latest updates for Flash to make sure you’re not a victim of this. Or better yet, just avoid this constant updating by avoiding Flash altogether.

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