Or vulnerability or whatever. Basically put, some posts have been floating around stating that some hackers managed to worm their way into Adobe Flash and could crash and hack into a computer, and this is absolutely true. However, what most posts I’ve seen done is jump to conclusions and assume the worst; everyone is prone to danger, turn off Flash, hide yo kids and hide yo wives. Which, well, isn’t true.
On the same page that I linked, Adobe states that “
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-5119) has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.194 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux”, which is still super omega bad. However, as I went to hastily turn off my Flash as some people posted to do, I double-checked what version I was on, and found out that I was on 18.0.0.203, and that is the current version as of late. I found out by checking this link here, which is an Abode website. Or, if you’re weary of trusting any links right now, you can just “right-click on content running in Flash Player and select “About Adobe (or Macromedia) Flash Player” from the menu”, and you should check and repeat the process for each browser if you have multiple browsers.
Does that mean that everyone should go slack and throw caution to the wind? Nah, son, don’t do that. Instead, just proceed with caution, but so long as you have Adobe Flash ver 18.0.0.203, you should be okay and you shouldn’t have to turn off your Flash. I honestly don’t know why people were suggesting that to begin with.
-Admine Riker
They were suggesting this because 18.0.0.203 was only released today; meanwhile the vunerability has been know about since Monday, and has been spotted in the wild beginning yesterday (7/7/2015.)