{"id":219,"date":"2005-11-08T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2005-11-08T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T16:17:33","slug":"time-to-update-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Time to update Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve not already updated your version of Flash player then now’s a good time to do it. After years of getting away with being a very secure system, Flash Player 7 has had a vulnerability revealed ‘that could allow the execution of arbitrary code’, in other words it could allow a website to install nasty stuff on your machine. <\/p>\n

It works by creating a specifically broken form of a .swf file that permits code to be run that wouldn’t normally be permitted by the Flash Player. Flash Player 7 has been around for a few years now, so it’s a good sign for its security that it’s taken this long to come to light, but now is a good time to upgrade to Flash Player 8.<\/p>\n

It’s free and easy to do, just follow the instructions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can find out more about the vulnerability here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upgrading also means that you can play the latest Flash content, which has some very cool graphical effects, and other cool stuff that animators love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve not already updated your version of Flash player then now’s a good time to do it. After years of getting away with being a very secure system, Flash Player 7 has had a vulnerability revealed ‘that could allow the execution of arbitrary code’, in other words it could allow a website to install … Continue reading Time to update Flash<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-3x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}