{"id":125487,"date":"2016-06-21T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T07:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125487\/update-or-immediately-delete-adobe-flash-player\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T07:35:12","slug":"update-or-immediately-delete-adobe-flash-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/06\/21\/update-or-immediately-delete-adobe-flash-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Update or immediately delete Adobe Flash Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security companies have urged internet users to install the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/get.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Flash Player <\/a>security update or delete the program completely. \u00a0The flaw affected the latest version of Flash across Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome devices.<\/p>\n<p>Security firms believed hackers were already exploiting the vulnerability in various countries and used one of the patches to control someone\u2019s device.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Flash Player is a web browser plug-in that enables video, games, interactives and ads on web pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/06\/giphy-7.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-111566\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/06\/giphy-7.gif\" alt=\"giphy (7)\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The program has been riddled with security issues for years, with many web developers preferring newer standards such as HTML5. Google recently moved YouTube over to HTML5, so there is no need for Flash to watch YouTube videos.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Mac, Linux, and ChromeOS on 16 June. These updates addressed \u201ccritical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/06\/giphy-8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-111570\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/06\/giphy-8.gif\" alt=\"giphy (8)\" width=\"240\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company said: \u201cAdobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-4171 exists in the wild, and is being used in limited, targeted attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='646c62848819a0cce27938a3979d636e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has issued a patch for its Flash Player browser plugin containing 36 security updates because hackers crashed a victim\u2019s computer and took control of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7781,"featured_media":125488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[11408,1344,11409,11410,7102,11411],"class_list":["post-125487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-adobe-flash-player","tag-computer","tag-hackers","tag-laptops","tag-security-2","tag-updates"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Adobe Flash Player","computer","hackers","laptops","security","updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}