Critical Fixes for Windows, Adobe Flash Player
Summary: Adobe issued its third Flash Player update in a month, fixing at least 17 vulnerabilities in Flash and Adobe AIR, on the same Patch Tuesday that Microsoft released a dozen bulletins covering Windows, Internet Explorer, Skype and other software. Microsoft labeled one-quarter of its patches critical, four addressed flaws disclosed publicly before Patch Tuesday, and the Internet Explorer bulletin alone fixed more than two dozen flaws, nearly all critical.
What's compelling: Recorded Future analysis cited here found Flash accounted for eight of the top 10 vulnerabilities used by exploit kits in 2015, and those kits were checking for unpatched Flash in 80 percent of cases - so an out-of-date plugin on any user's browser is the entry point, not an edge case.
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