The Usual Mail and Flash Updates

By on October 21st, 2008 in Just Saying ...

At the office, the usual wandering through the mail server, trying to figure out some problems with an outside user getting their mail blocked. It’s usually because a computer on their network is an evil spammer, usually without their knowledge. So they get on the private blacklist we use.

If you have Adobe Flash installed on your computer (most do):

Adobe has released their latest update to Flash (for multimedia on web pages) to fix the “clickjacking” bug. (This allows an evil hacker to place a hidden ‘button’ on a web page that will do nefarious things when you think you are just clicking on a link on a page. This exploit is not widespread, and not terribly easy to do, but is rather sneaky.)

You can check their Flash version by going to this Adobe page: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ . You’ll get your current version, and a list of versions for Windows, Mac/OSX, Linuz, and Solaris operating systems.

Notice that this update is not just for an Internet Explorer vulnerability, but also affects Firefox, Opera, etc. You should make sure that you have this update.

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