Adobe Flash Player Update For Mac Snow Leopard
Apple shipped an out-of-date - and vulnerable - version of Adobe Flash Player with its newest OS, Snow Leopard, security companies have warned. Adobe issued a warning last week to Mac users who installed the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update, saying that Apple shipped an outdated Flash Player with the operating system update.
By Shane Cole
Monday, July 13, 2015, 06:58 am PT (09:58 am ET)
TL;DR— If you're running OS X 10.6 or later, download and run this Flash uninstaller. If you have OS X 10.4 or 10.5, use this uninstaller instead.
Adobe has patched more than twenty Flash vulnerabilities in the last week— some of them days after active exploits were discovered in the wild— and issued over a dozen Flash Player security advisories since the beginning of this year. Flash has become such an information security nightmare that Facebook's Chief Security Officer called on Adobe to sunset the platform as soon as possible and ask browser vendors to forcibly kill it off.
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Though most exploits are targeted at Windows, Mac users are not invincible. Thankfully, Flash is easy to remove and most of your favorite sites and Web services will continue to work fine without Flash installed. YouTube, Netflix, and a host of others have either made the shift to HTML5 video or use alternative technologies, like Microsoft's Silverlight.How to uninstall Flash from your Mac
- Verify your OS X version by clicking the Apple icon in the upper left and selecting About This Mac.
- For OS X 10.5 and later— Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite— download and run this uninstaller.
- For OS X 10.4 and 10.5— Tiger or Leopard— download and run this uninstaller
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— InfoSec Taylor (@SwiftOnSecurity) July 13, 2015Adobe Flash Player Update For Mac Snow Leopard
What to do if you need Flash
If you find yourself with absolutely no choice but to use Flash— maybe you have a Flash-based business application— the safest course of action is to install Google Chrome. Chrome includes a special version of Flash that runs inside a sandbox, with updates handled by Google.
If you can't or won't install Chrome, a good fallback is Marc Hoyois's ClickToFlash plugin for Safari. It will prevent any Flash content from running until you explicitly authorize it by clicking a placeholder in the page.
If you insist on keeping Flash installed and won't use ClickToFlash, at the very least make sure Flash can update itself automatically by enabling automatic updates in System Preferences → Flash Player. Then perhaps you should take a long, hard look at your life choices.
Adobe issued a warning last week to Mac users who installed the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update, saying that Apple shipped an outdated Flash Player with the operating system update. Adobe’s software engineer Wendy Poland wrote in a blog post this past Tuesday that Apple released both the Security Update 2010-004 and Mac OS X 10.6.4 with an outdated Flash Player:
This update includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player (version 10.0.45.2) than available from Adobe.com.
Neither update will downgrade users who have already upgraded to Flash Player 10.1, Adobe confirmed. Everyone else should download the latest Flash Player from Adobe’s download page. Alternatively, users can check their Flash Player version number by visiting this page or by choosing the “About Adobe Flash Player” in a menu that appears when you right-click on Flash content.
Apple posted Mac OS X 10.6.4 this past Tuesday, five days after Adobe released the final version of Flash Player 10.1 The Snow Leopard update patched a number of system bugs and a bunch of issues related to Adobe’s Creative Suite 3. It also fixed an annoying issue that could make Apple-branded keyboards and notebook trackpads unresponsive.
Adobe flash player update for mac os x 10.6.8. The 316MB download also includes Safari 5, the latest version of Apple’s browser that features a 25 percent speed increase for Javascript code, the latest HTML5 support, and the new Reader feature that strips away all HTML formatting and graphics for better readability.
The recently released Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops supports hardware accelerated H.264 video decoding, multitouch input surfaces, better HTTP streaming, multicasting, and a new buffering system. The software is also more resources-savvy and it honors the rules of a browser’s private browsing mode by not caching any data.
Read more at the Adobe blog