According to manufacturers’ elaborate plan, since beginning of 2021 support for Adobe Flash Player was finally discontinued. This means that Adobe has officially stopped distributing Flash Player and its updates, and browser developers have stopped supporting Flash plugins. In addition, an emergency “switch” was introduced into the Flash Player code in advance, which prevents the… Continue reading Microsoft will permanently remove Adobe Flash Player from Windows in summer 2021
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A special version of Flash for China turned into adware
Many users and cybersecurity specialists have discovered that a special version of Flash for China has turned into adware. As you know, at the beginning of 2021, support for Adobe Flash Player was finally discontinued. A special self-destructing code was pre-built into the software code, and starting from January 12, 2021, Adobe blocks the launch… Continue reading A special version of Flash for China turned into adware
Flash content will be blocked from January 12, 2021
Adobe released the latest Flash update this week and is even more persists in recommendations that users uninstall the app before end of support at the end of this year. Flash content will be blocked a little later. Let me remind you that earlier the developers have already warned that they will ask users to… Continue reading Flash content will be blocked from January 12, 2021
Attackers again deceived Apple’s notarization process
In September 2020, I talked about how the Shlayer malware successfully passed the notarization process and was able to run on any Mac running macOS Catalina and newer. Now there is information that the attackers again deceived the notarization process. Apple introduced the “notarization process” security mechanism in February of this year: any Mac software… Continue reading Attackers again deceived Apple’s notarization process