Adobe Flash Player End of Life 2020 Announcement | Qualys

Summary: Adobe announced in July 2017 that Flash Player would reach end of life on December 31, 2020, after which Adobe will no longer support or distribute it and will issue no further security patches. Adobe plans to block Flash content from running in Flash Player starting January 12, 2021, while Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla disable Flash in their browsers by the end of 2020.
Why it matters: After December 31, 2020, any Flash Player still installed in your environment runs without security patches, and Microsoft has confirmed it will stop shipping 'Security Update for Adobe Flash Player' for Edge Legacy and Internet Explorer 11.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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