Security & Privacy

Adobe has issued a security update for Flash Player, fixing six critical vulnerabilities which “could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.” More information about the vulnerabilities is available here.

Users can download the new version, 10.1.82.76, from this page.

It is worth noting that with this release of Flash Player, Adobe has enabled hardware decoding of H.264 videos on Mac OS X. This only works with certain GPUs (video cards), but this means that playing H.264 videos from web sites will results in much lower CPU usage on Macs that can take advantage of this feature. More information about this here.