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FireEye has detailed an attack on a recent zero-day vulnerability Adobe patched last week. The flaw (CVE-2916-4117) affects the previous latest version of Adobe Flash and copped a rushed patch after FireEye reported attacks in the wild. Genwei Jiang, a Singaporean senior security engineer, has revealed the details of the …

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  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    Tempting to say : 'Good'

    It is absolutely unbelievable how, after decades of being patched, this festering pile of poisonous dung is still capable of offering zero-days for hackers.

    Beezlebub himself must be one of the programmers of this abomination.

    We can't get rid of it fast enough.

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    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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      Re: Tempting to say : 'Good'

      "Let's play a little flash game..."

      Programmed by Saw himself.

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      1. VinceH
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        Headmaster

        Re: Tempting to say : 'Good'

        Jigsaw - not Saw. The latter is the name of the film series, the former the nickname within the films for the character.

        (Okay, the icon is intended for pedantic grammar-Nazis, but what the hell!)

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    2. Paul Crawford Silver badge
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      Re: Tempting to say : 'Good'

      Flash?

      Or the fact you can still embed shit shit in an Office document?

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      1. bombastic bob Silver badge
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        Re: Tempting to say : 'Good'

        "Or the fact you can still embed shit shit in an Office document?"

        could be worse, a mail reader could OPEN THOSE AUTOMATICALLY in order to "preview" the attachment. You know. like 'Virus Outbreak' aka 'Microsoft Outlook'.

        And the article suggesting that Win-10-nic is any kind of "mitigation" for this is laughable.

        "Oooh look a really funny thing, it's in a '.doc' file attached to this e-mail, I need to open the document to view it, I have Office and it can open those"

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  2. Elmer Phud

    M$ update yesterday.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    At least at work we can do real-time blocking, deny dynamic DNS sites and such. A home or small business user pretty much relies on luck. They are so screwed. It's no wonder people are shying away from online transactions now.

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    1. Mephistro
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      I see it more as people wising up -a little bit- on online security, at long last.

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  4. Ilsa Loving
    FAIL

    Why...?

    Why does Office even allow you to embed flash in the first place?

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    1. gollux
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      Re: Why...?

      So that school kiddies can attempt to bypass network security rules to play Flash Games. What's it been, about a decade now that this stupidity has been enabled? Was trouble when it began...

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  5. David Austin

    If I had a genie...

    My one wish would be to unmake Adobe. Completely. On a Quantum level.

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    1. bombastic bob Silver badge
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      Re: If I had a genie...

      I've heard that in the publishing world, Adobe products are some of the best. What they should NOT have done is Flash, Shockwave, etc. [the biggest security craters on the intarwebs]. Those things are probably costing the company more than they were ever worth, especially reputation-wise.

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      1. True Thug
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        Re: If I had a genie...

        Macromedia made Flash. adobe bought them

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Re: If I had a genie...

          Macromedia made Flash. adobe bought them..

          And see what they did to it...

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    open source?

    Why don't adobe just open source Flash?

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    open source?

    Why don't adobe just open source it?

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    Open source?

    Just open source Flash.

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  9. s. pam Silver badge
    Mushroom

    How many fucking times in the last month???

    Have I had to update this painful pus-fill SW canker called Flash on my 81yr old Mum's PC?

    DIE ADOBE, now with Symantec too!

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