![]() Prior to joining Facebook, Stamos was Yahoo’s security chief. ![]() Thats definitely a good thing and while it still requires that you edit settings on a page that is somewhat hidden, it is easier than having to find the mms. “It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day,” Facebook’s newly installed chief security officer Alex Stamos said on his personal Twitter account Sunday. Mozilla makes it easier for Firefox users to disable protected mode in Flash Player. Call for the endįor some in the tech industry, this latest Flash security flub is the last straw. However, Google does limit Flash’s interaction with the rest of the browser via a security sandbox. Google’s Chrome, for example, has not disabled its integrated Flash plugin that remained at version 18.0.0.203 at this writing. The fact that Mozilla chose user security over a more polished experience is significant and sets it apart from competing third-party browsers. Nevertheless, Flash is still very present on the web and not having this functionality may degrade the web browsing experience for some Firefox users. Why this matters: Once the de facto standard for web video and animations, Adobe Flash is slowly losing favor to HTML5-based video capability built-in to modern browsers. Among that data were the Flash exploits as well as other previously unknown exploits in Windows and the Linux, according to reports. Earlier in July, hackers breached the systems of Italy-based Hacking Team and published 400GB worth of the company’s data online.
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