Apple blacklists old Flash versions

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Forces users to update Adobe plug-ins.

Users of Apple's Safari browser will be blocked from using unpatched Adobe Flash software following a new security update.

Apple blacklists old Flash versions

The update, pushed by Apple late last week, came the same week that Adobe fixed two Flash Player vulnerabilities being exploited by attackers in the wild.

It also followed closely another Flash update, issued in early February, which plugged a hole predominantly being leveraged to infect users' machines when they visited malicious websites in Firefox or Safari from their Mac.

In response to frequent exploits being leveraged against the popular Adobe software, Apple has introduced a safeguard that gives Safari users no option but to keep Flash up to date.

“When attempting to view Flash content in Safari, you may see this alert: ‘Blocked Plug-in,'” said an Apple notice. From there, Safari users will be able to download the latest version of Flash.

Apple's security update for Flash impacts users of Mac OS X 10.6, OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion.

This article originally appeared at scmagazineus.com

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