{"id":15887,"date":"2015-07-14T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230041"},"modified":"2015-07-14T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:45:25","slug":"adobe-under-renewed-pressure-to-kill-flash-following-security-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/adobe-under-renewed-pressure-to-kill-flash-following-security-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe under renewed pressure to kill Flash following security issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_155512\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Cybersecurity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Cybersecurity.jpg\" alt=\"Much of the world's digital video content is still served up on Flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Much of the world&#8217;s digital video content is still served up on Flash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Adobe Flash, the video and graphics platform that was once almost ubiquitous across computing devices is coming under increasing pressure after a series of security vulnerabilities, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecoms.com\/\">Telecoms.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Such has been the severity of these <a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/security\/products\/flash-player\/apsa15-04.html\">vulnerabilities<\/a> that Mozilla has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2015\/07\/14\/mozilla-blocks-all-versions-of-adobe-flash-in-firefox\/\">added<\/a> all versions of Flash to the block list for the Firefox Browser. In addition the new Chief Security Officer of Facebook used <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexstamos\/status\/620306643360706561\">Twitter<\/a> to call for Adobe to announce an end-of-life date for Flash.<\/p>\n<p>This probably marks the end game for a piece of software that was once considered central to the consumption of multimedia content, both on PC and mobile. The first and probably most damaging Emperor\u2019s New Clothes moment was in 2010 when the late Apple boss Steve Jobs addressed a furore around Apple\u2019s diminishing support for Flash.<\/p>\n<p>An Adobe-affiliated blogger has even gone so far as to demand Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leebrimelow.com\/apple-slaps-developers-in-the-face\/\">screw itself<\/a>, and Jobs saw fit to put the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughts-on-flash\/\">Apple view<\/a> forward. \u00a0Among Jobs\u2019 criticisms of Flash was its security, saying: \u201c<a title=\"Symantec on Telecoms.com\" href=\"http:\/\/telecoms.com\/resource-centre\/view\/symantec\/\">Symantec<\/a> recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don\u2019t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years later Android <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/2012\/06\/flash-player-and-android-update.html\">followed suit<\/a> and the industry on the whole has been looking to reduce its exposure to Flash ever since, with tech such as HTML5 being of significant assistance in this regard. The writing appears to be on the wall for Flash, and it will be interesting to see if Adobe is capable of pulling the plug on it in a sensible and dignified way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe Flash, the video and graphics platform that was once almost ubiquitous across computing devices is coming under increasing pressure after a series of security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1615,1564,2970,1976,598,356],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-flash","category-mozilla","category-news-analysis","category-steve-jobs","category-twitter","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15888,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions\/15888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}