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Crooks behind the world's worst exploit kit, Angler, have added the latest Adobe Flash vulnerabilities to the suite's long list of attack vectors. Angler now sports support for some of the 35 Flash player holes detailed and patched last month that includes eight memory corruption flaws and five type confusion bugs. French …

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  1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
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    Just say No

    to Flash. If you have it remove it. We all know that it is a bug ridden slime fest.

    It is a pity that some sites still need flash (unless for some reason you are browsing from an iPhone)

    Yes BBC I'm looking at you. Get rid!

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    1. VinceH
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      "Yes BBC I'm looking at you. Get rid!"

      For iPlayer at least, they are allegedly transitioning from Flash to HTML5.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Sorry BBC are to busy expanding in Nu-Medah don't you know darlingh to fix stuff.

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  2. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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    Adobe really is incredible

    To keep on fabricating discovering so many bugs after so many years is really a shining example of professionalism and dedication - to the blackhats.

    It's just a video player, Adobe. You didn't have to link it to every function imagined by Mankind.

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  3. frank ly

    I'm wondering

    Is there any type of bug that hasn't been discovered (yet) in Adobe Flash?

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    1. VinceH
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      One that has legs and crawls around.

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  4. Mystic Megabyte
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    I'd remove Flash immediately if the BBC would drop it. I've tried changing my FF user agent to iPad but it does not work. Has anyone succeeded in doing this?

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    1. Hans 1
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      Re: BBC

      They are running a survey on bbc right now, fill it out ... or do you think the BBC pays more attention to the comments section on el'Reg than their online surveys ?

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        Link?

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  5. Nixinkome

    I will stop using the BBC video and sound until they stop using Adobe Flash to transmit these.

    I am not a security expert but can't a white hat insert some backfire into Angler so that it affects its users too? It may be preventative.

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    1. Robert Carnegie Silver badge
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      Angler's business model is to offer its customers the latest Flash vulnerabilities to exploit, including those recently or even less recently patched by Adobe but still open on user systems. Not to do that would be crimin...hmm. Well, anyway, it seem you get your money's worth. (Disclaimer: for all that I know, The Register made them up.)

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  6. Mark 85

    Video?

    I tend to ignore videos in news stories anyway, so no big loss here. I guess I'm old skool and would prefer to read rather than have some talking head do "happy talk" and not give any details. I'm not missing Flash at all.

    As for web page functionality.. if it want's Flash... I'm done with that site.

    At work, we're working on the few (very few) proprietary programs/apps that need it. Once we can kill it, IT will (or should be) a whole lot happier. Well, maybe not the developers who seem to know only Flash, but they've been warned to change their ways or take a long walk.

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