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Adobe officially discontinues Flash Player support across all platforms, recommends uninstalling the software immediately

It’s time to uninstall Adobe Flash Player. Following Adobe’s 2017 announcement of its plans to end support of its Flash browser plug-in at the end of 2020, the time has now passed and support for the software has ended. From now on, Adobe will begin blocking content from running in Flash Player beginning on January […]

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Adobe announces “end of life” date for Flash Player at end of 2020

Adobe’s Flash Player now has an end date: the end of 2020. Adobe says it’s working with companies including Apple and Google to prepare for the upcoming death of Flash, as quoted here: Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – Adobe […]

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Adobe updates Flash Player to version 21.0.0.213, works to patch new vulnerability (updated)

As useful as Adobe’s Flash Player tends to be, this is sort of a mess. Less than a month after a critical Flash vulnerability allowed an attacker to take control of a Mac, Adobe has issued an emergency update for yet another critical flaw, bringing the current version to 21.0.0.213. The latest one is already […]

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Adobe pushes Flash Player 18.0.0.194, cites security vulnerabilities in previous versions

As useful as it may be, Adobe is still putting out fires with Flash Player. The company issued a security update for its Flash Player on OS X, Windows, and Linux. In the bulletin, it cited that this update addresses a critical security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain control and take over […]

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YouTube begins transition from Flash to HTML5, shows signs of the times

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like Flash is finally on its way out. Or at least YouTube will be helping it on its way out as it converts over to HTML5. Per Macworld, five years after Google introduced HTML5 video as an option on YouTube, Google’s popular video site now defaults […]