Opinion: Using Flash is like leaving your home doors open and sending invites to criminals
Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 06:30
in Mathematics & Economics
`It is a year since I last wrote about Adobe Flash and why everyone should stop using it. Since then, the leaks from the hack of the mass surveillance company HackingTeam have revealed three serious bugs (called zero-day) bugs) in Flash that they were exploiting to take over victims' machines. It is likely that more Flash vulnerabilities will be revealed as security researchers work through the documents the hackers removed from the HackingTeam.