Adobe Releases Video Describing Flash Player Vulnerability

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Tony Fendall.
Categories: Adobe, Bugs/Fixes, Flash Player.

Update 02-04-08: This was an April Fools prank.
Sorry everyone!

bug[17] By now most people have probably heard the news of a significant security flaw discovered in the Adobe Flash Player.  The vulnerability was discovered during the CanSecWest security conference, where Shane Macaulay used the flaw to hack into a laptop running Vista SP1and execute arbitrary code.

Part of the terms of the conference was that the details of the vulnerability would not be disclosed until Adobe had a chance to patch them, so we were all left to speculate based on the far reaching security updates coming to the Flash Player in April.

That is, until now!  Adobe has now released this video, where some key details of the exploit are explained. Check it out!

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Jonah
Comment on April 2nd, 2008.

I would love to know what goes through the head of someone who rickrolls. This has got to be the most tired, played-out joke in the history of the internet.

Comment on April 2nd, 2008.

Well, normally I wouldn’t ever do it, but April Fools is special :)

Sorry Everyone!