{"id":353,"date":"2009-07-28T22:35:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T05:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techclub.mypctechs.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:40:58","slug":"new-flash-based-exploit-makes-internet-browsing-dangerous-be-careful-for-a-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/new-flash-based-exploit-makes-internet-browsing-dangerous-be-careful-for-a-few-days\/","title":{"rendered":"New Flash based exploit makes internet browsing dangerous, be careful for a few days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From ComputerWorld: &#8220;More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won&#8217;t patch until Thursday, Danish security company Secunia says. According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company&#8217;s Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 on their PCs, while 31% have Flash Player 9. (The total exceeds 100% because some users have installed both.) The most-current versions of Flash Player \u2014 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) \u2014 are vulnerable to hackers conducting drive-by attacks hosted on malicious and legitimate-but-compromised sites. Antivirus vendors have reported hundreds, in some cases thousands, of sites launching drive-bys against Flash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9135937\/Almost_all_Windows_users_vulnerable_to_Flash_zero_day_attacks\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9135937\/Almost_all_Windows_users_vulnerable_to_Flash_zero_day_attacks<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/07\/28\/1412255\/92-of-Windows-PCs-Vulnerable-To-Zero-Day-Attacks-On-Flash\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/07\/28\/1412255\/92-of-Windows-PCs-Vulnerable-To-Zero-Day-Attacks-On-Flash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Translation: Be very careful for the next week, don&#8217;t visit any website that you don&#8217;t trust 100%. Once the patch for Adobe Flash has been released, download and apply it as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: larger;\" href=\"http:\/\/ping.fm\/ref\/?link=http:\/\/techclub.mypctechs.com\/?p=353&amp;title=New Flash based exploit makes internet browsing dangerous&amp;body=New Flash based exploit makes internet browsing dangerous\">  >> Did you like this article? Ping it!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ComputerWorld: &#8220;More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won&#8217;t patch until Thursday, Danish security company Secunia says. According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company&#8217;s Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 on their PCs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}