Mozilla blocks Flash in Firefox until Adobe fixes security holes

Adobe’s Flash isn’t known for being the most secure piece of software ever developed, but recently it has come under especially heavy fire after three previously unknown vulnerabilities were found in files leaked in last week’s Hacking Team breach.

Mozilla has decided that it has had enough of Flash’s weak security, and has taken action as a result, blocking the Flash Player entirely. Yesterday, head of Mozilla’s Firefox support team Matt Schmidt tweeted that all versions of Adobe Flash are blocked by default

 Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, this isn’t permanent. Schmidt later followed up on the first tweet: “To be clear, Flash is only blocked until Adobe releases a version which isn’t being actively exploited by publicly known vulnerabilities.”

source:  digitaltrends