14 September, 2016

Microsoft and Adobe Patched Critical Security Bugs in Recent Updates

Microsoft and Adobe Patched Critical Security Bugs in Recent Updates


Adobe has rolled out a critical update to address several issues, most of which are Remote Code Execution flaws, in its widely-used Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and ChromeOS.
If you are using Adobe Flash Player version lower than 23.0.0.162 then your computer could potentially allow attacker to take control of your computer. So stop playing with fire and and update it to latest version.

Many websites left Adobe Flash Player because its buggy. It had been hit by many critical vulnerabilities. Lately Pornhub also says goodbye to Flash Player. It's no longer an excuse for you to keep Flash on your computer.
Microsoft also rolled out critical update to address several issues on IE and Edge browser etc. They addressed total 50 issues in 14 bulletin. 7 out of them is considered as critical and another 7 as important.
One of the critical bug addressed in recent update is  Dubbed Microsoft Browser Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2016-3351 ), the zero-day flaw could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution attacks by tricking a victim to view a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer or Edge.
Microsoft made another important announcement regarding future update. You will no longer able to select which updates to install. Microsoft will release them in bundle form. Which will close most of doors for hackers.

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