Adobe Flash was present in multitudes of web pages, but by the end of this 2016 step of being present in the 50% of the first 10,000 web pages of the ranking of alexa to be present only in the 10%.
News that highlights the disappearance of adobe flash
- Firefox and Facebook announced that they will block adobe flash.
- Theft of documents to the Hacking Team (an Italian company dedicated to creating surveillance and espionage tools), filtering 400gb of information and a list of its customers.
- Many web pages are beginning to migrate to HTML5 for greater security.
Security Failures (the most known)
- Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier versions allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash application).
- Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.226 and earlier versions allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
- Adobe Flash Player18.0.0.324, 19.x, 20.x overflow in Windows and OS X. Before 11.2.20.20.55 on Linux.
- Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.194 and previous versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, allowed an attacker to take control of the affected system after a successful exploitation, these are evident in the case of the Hacking Team.
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