Hello, welcome to the Wednesday, November 21st, 2018 edition of the Sandcent Storm Center's

Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich.

And I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

Although we got a nice surprise for us for the long weekend, and that's a critical patch

for Flash Player.

This patch addresses a vulnerability was described about a week ago by Gil Daba, a researcher

from Israel and there's sufficient detail in the blog describing this vulnerability

to make widespread exploitation of this vulnerability

very likely. So if at all possible on Wednesday, you probably do want to patch this vulnerability

or maybe you have enough of staff over the long weekend to take care of it, but this is something that you really need

to expedite. If you haven't already uninstalled Adobe Flash Player, but remember,

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge also need to be patched, and yes, patches are available

for both because they come with Adobe Flash Player pre-installed.

Also, for those of you heading to Family over the Long Weekend and being pulled into various IT

duties, certainly make sure that this patch is applied then uninstall or disable Adobe Flash player.

I would always first apply the latest version before I then uninstall or disable it.

Sounds a little bit counterproductive to first update, then uninstall.

But you never really are sure if you're removing all components.

That's why I prefer to first update in particular

with systems like family systems where they later than may again enable or download Adobe

Flash Player.

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