Critical Adobe Flash Bug Impacts Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS by Tom Spring.
From the post:
Adobe released a patch for a critical flaw on Tuesday that leaves its Flash Player vulnerable to arbitrary code execution by an adversary. Affected are versions of the Flash Player running on Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS.
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Unless you need the technical details to prepare an exploit, that’s about all that needs to be said about the latest Adobe Flash fail.
You aren’t running Flash? Yes?
Assuming you are not running Flash, download and save a known to be safe Flash file. Attach it to an email to your current contractor(s).
Call your contractor(s) and ask if they can open the attached Flash file. Should they say yes, start looking for new contractor(s).
What are you going to say when you get a “can you open the Flash attachment” call?
PS: I wonder if any of the techno-mages at the White House are running Flash? Thoughts?