The ubiquitous Flash multimedia player has a security flaw that gives intruders a back door into a user's PC, said eEye Digital Security.
Macromedia has released a fix for the problem, and urges all users of versions older than 6.0.65.0 to upgrade to that edition.
Flash, which is commonly found on Web sites and less often delivered in commercial e-mail pitches, can serve as the entry point for malicious code -- which could, in turn, let attackers control a remote PC -- through a specially-formatted Flash file.
Users can download the most recent version, which is not susceptible to the security gap, from Macromedia's Web site.
posted on December 18, 2002 09:19:46 AM new
When my dad was in the business of organizing the CWA-CIO, years ago, he told me that nothing said on the telephone was private. In those days, our telephone conversations were picked up locally. Now, with systems such as ECHELON and NSA you are silly to think that you have complete privacy on a computer or telephone.
Faxes, home phone, cellular phone, email, microvave links, voice, text, images...if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there. Nobody is secure. Even if God has a phone, it's being monitored. LOL!
