{"id":77,"date":"2008-10-21T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/wpblog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:44","slug":"the-usual-mail-and-flash-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/the-usual-mail-and-flash-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Usual Mail and Flash Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>If you have Adobe Flash installed on your computer (most do):<\/p>\n<p>Adobe has released their latest update to Flash (for multimedia on web pages) to fix the &#8220;clickjacking&#8221; bug. (This allows an evil hacker to place a hidden &#8216;button&#8217; 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.)<\/p>\n<p>You can check their Flash version by going to this Adobe page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flash\/about\/\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flash\/about\/<\/a>  . You&#8217;ll get your current version, and a list of versions for Windows, Mac\/OSX, Linuz, and Solaris operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>If you have Adobe Flash installed on your computer (most do):<\/p>\n<p>Adobe has released their latest update to Flash (for multimedia on web pages) to fix the &#8220;clickjacking&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/the-usual-mail-and-flash-updates\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: The Usual Mail and Flash Updates &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}