{"id":48865,"date":"2014-07-22T18:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=48865"},"modified":"2014-07-22T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:14:18","slug":"protecting-latest-flash-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/protecting-latest-flash-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Against Latest Flash Exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">What is the \u201cRosetta\u201d flash exploit and what you can do about it.&#8211;PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<h4>Protecting Against Latest Flash Exploit<\/h4>\n<p>ByMiguel Leiva-Gomez for MakeTechEasier<\/p>\n<p>Everyone who\u2019s tech-savvy already knows that Flash isn\u2019t exactly the safest piece of software to use. It\u2019s written in stone: Avoid opening non-trustworthy pages with Flash. While the vast majority of the public is not aware of this, what is perhaps even worse is that they\u2019re not aware that Flash has an exploit that can really ruin their day. This is why you\u2019re about to find out what this new exploit, known informally as the \u201cRosetta\u201d exploit, is and what you can do about it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Flash? What\u2019s That?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don\u2019t understand what Flash is, it\u2019s the software you sometimes use to view animated content online. Websites like YouTube operated largely on Flash until recently. In case you\u2019re curious, it\u2019s developed and maintained by Adobe after an acquisition from Macromedia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OK, So What Is The Rosetta Exploit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An engineer at Google discovered something awry in Flash\u2019s software. It was basically a security hole that allowed anyone who exploited it to gain access to things like cookies and any other additional data that the browser provides in a request. The engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, developed a tool called \u201cRosetta Flash\u201d that showed how malicious SWF (Flash content) files can be used to do the things he claimed could happen. For years, the exploit has been out in the open and no one bothered to fix it until now. 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