Amazon.com Is Going To Stop Flash Ads

Due to recent changes in Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari, Amazon decided to order from September 1 no more Flash ads on Amazon.com to accept. According to the Internet shop is the reason that browsers have changed when Flash content is displayed on websites the way.

Not only browser developers have restricted the operation of Flash content. Security experts regularly advise to remove Flash Player in the browser. The new policy is to ensure that ads on the website to keep working. Flash is already longer under fire, both because of the security issues with Adobe Flash Player, as well as technology for displaying video content.

Recently let Facebook CSO Alex Stamos yet know that with the support of Adobe Flash to stop, then follow the browser developers. In this way, web developers are forced to upgrade their tools and programs to HTML5, since they postpone now that due to the permanent Flash support.

Critical Security Update For Adobe Flash Player

There is a critical security update for Adobe Flash Player appeared that resolves eleven leaks, nine of which could give an attacker full control over the computer. It would be visiting a hacked or malicious Web site or see getting infected Flash ads suffice.

Through the remaining two vulnerabilities an attacker could bypass the restriction for uploading files, as well as a cross-domain policy. Ten of the eleven remedied vulnerabilities were found by external researchers include Google, Intel Labs and NCC Group. Windows and Mac users are advised to update within 72 hours to Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.134. This can be done via the automatic update feature and Adobe.com .

In the case of Internet Explorer 10 and 11 on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, the embedded Flash Player will be updated automatically. Microsoft had the appropriate Flash updates already on March 10 released two days before Adobe published them. Also in the case of Chrome embedded Flash Player will be automatically updated. Like Google, Microsoft published on 10 March a new Chrome version , but this is not stated whether the Flash vulnerabilities have been fixed. Through this Adobe page Internet to see whether and which version of Flash Player installed on their system state.