Once again, Adobe Flash has been finding the headline for all the wrong reasons. Yes, the Adobe Flash vulnerability resurfaced last week and this time, you cannot neglect the consequences that come tagged with it. As per the reports, the latest flaw with the Adobe Flash was that, it provides the hackers with complete control over your PC. This seems really threatening, doesn’t it? For those who think its not, think again, the hackers can easily hijack your system and steal your private data.

Adobe was notified with the latest issue by tech and security giants like Google, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs

Adobe in a spot of bother

The latest flaw with the Adobe Flash has made things worse for the respective team. Adobe has been on the security scanner for the past couple of years and the latest security hole has presented it with a precarious future. Apparently, most of the tech firms are choosing the drastic measure of uninstalling Adobe completely as they want to make no compromise on security. As per the reports, most of the web firms are in search for Flash alternatives and they just don’t want to live on the edge when the factor under consideration is “data security”.

The road to recovery

The security professionals at Adobe, has been scrambling to make ends meet from the point where the security flaw was sniffed out. As a result, they rolled out an updated version of the security bulletin, which highlights the precautions all the pertinent users could take to avoid this flaw in addition to other information like the operating systems that were vulnerable to this flaw. Apparently, the Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS and Android were vulnerable to this security hole. Adobe literally launched updates for different scenarios, for instance, the Adobe Linux Flash Player can be updated to 11.2.202.577 to keeping this threat at bay.

Precautions

The fact that Adobe has found itself in the wrong end of the security wall several times in the past couple of years is something that cannot be left alone. There are two means to stay away from the Adobe security threat without completely uninstalling the software.

• The first option is to prevent the plug-in from getting activated automatically and

• You can also use the Firefox browser, which blocks the plug-in by default.

Make it a point to update your Adobe to the latest version as soon as possible. You can refer to this security bulletin from Adobe to sort out the right update version with respect to your pertinent Operating System.