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ADOBE FLASH PLAYER IS OFFICIALLY DEAD TOMORROW
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SERGIU GATLAN
* December 31, 2020
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Flash Player will reach its end of life (EOL) on January 1, 2021, after always
being a security risk to those who have used it over the years.
Over the years, multiple zero-day and critical vulnerabilities [1, 2, 3, 4]
found to impact Flash Player were used by both cybercriminals and nation-state
hacking groups to install malware, remotely execute malicious code, and take
over the users' computers.
The demise of Adobe's multimedia software platform was first revealed in a
coordinated announcement from Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, and Mozilla in
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This decision was taken due to the decreasing numbers of people still using the
software and because of more secure and better-performing open tech such
as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly being available.
After December 31st, 2020, Adobe will stop distributing or updating Flash
Player and web browsers will no longer provide support for the Adobe Flash
Plugin.
Adobe Flash Player's end of life is good news given that it will drastically
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operating systems.
To make sure that all users know of its imminent deprecation, Adobe has also
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"Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020
and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning
January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall
Flash Player to help protect their systems," Adobe says.
"Flash Player may remain on your system unless you uninstall it. Uninstalling
Flash Player will help secure your system since Adobe does not intend to issue
Flash Player updates or security patches after the EOL Date."
Starting with January 1st, 2021, Adobe will also remove all Flash Player
download pages from its websites.
Users who still want to download and install the software are urged not to
download it from third-party websites since those versions "not authorized by
Adobe" and installing them could lead to malware infections.
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"Uninstall" when prompted by Adobe in Flash Player.
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for Windows and Mac users.
Microsoft has also released the KB4577586 optional update to remove Windows
ActiveX versions of Adobe Flash Player and to block it from being installed
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Microsoft will also remove all Flash-related downloadable resources from all its
download platforms after Flash reaches its end of life tomorrow.
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* DBB-SEC-ISSO - 1 YEAR AGO
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Joecartoon was my one of my first experiences with the power of Flash. I will
always remember clicking the buttons on the Frog in the Blender cartoon. Its
not the same today, watching a video of the same thing.
* ARTEMRAZIN - 11 MONTHS AGO
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Nice article. Some developers still have to use Flash in their desktop
applications. I would suggest looking at F-IN-BOX.
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