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<h2>Flash Zero Day Vulnerability: Flash is Under Crash</h2>
Internet is the medium to communicate and store myriads of pertinent information but, be aware, within quick span of time your data might get stolen leaving you incredulous and surprised. For the third time in a week, researchers have observed zero day vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player browser plugin. The issue got heated when hackers stole 400 GB data from Hacking Team. Hacking team is an Italian security firm that sells software to the government and ensures that it is protected but, this incident has not only tarnished their image but also created a sense of panic among users.
Flash flaw comes under scanner from Trend Micro, which said it reported the bug (CVE-2015-5123) to Adobe’s Security Team. Adobe confirmed that it is working on a patch for the two outstanding zero-day vulnerabilities exposed in the Hacking Team breach.
Understanding the sensitivity of the issue and blemished Adobe’s Flash Player, Google Chrome comes with its own version of Flash pre installed. This is not the inception of tumbling Flash, earlier too, Adobe was forced to release emergency security updates in both February and January. Albeit, Adobe quickly issued a patch to fix the problem, but Hacking team’s internal memos describe the flaw as the most beautiful Flash bug for the last four years.
However, negligence has caused them problem which is ginormous and security of data online is under threat. Flash is literally under crash and the impeccable personality have revealed their negligence way back in 2009. In 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has written an open letter called “Thoughts on Flash”, explain why the company do not trust Adobe’s software on its devices. He raised issues with performance, battery life, and security as major problems, noting that Flash had "one of the worst security records in 2009."
Reprimand hovering on Adobe Flash, “Flash has become such an information security nightmare that Facebook’s Chief Security Officer called on Adobe to sunset the platform as soon as possible and ask browser vendors to forcibly kill it off,” Apple Insider’s Shane Cole writes. “Though most exploits are targeted at Windows, Mac users are not invincible.”
Crisis of Adobe has raise myriads of unanswered question and security on internet is under scanner. 2015, doesn’t looks like good and flourishing year for the software.