Security & Privacy

Adobe has released another security update for Flash Player. Fixing a whopping 19 vulnerabilities, this updates Flash Player to the confusing version number of 10.1.102.64 (the previous version was 10.1.85.3). Download a new version of the software here.

As we pointed out recently, Apple will no longer be either shipping Macs with Flash, or providing updates to Flash Player in their security and/or Mac OS X updates. So it’s time to get used to installing updates on your own. Given the large number of security risks with Flash, you should do this every time there is a new update (which, alas, is frequently).