Monday 2nd January 2017 Popular news sites are slowly moving from using embedded Flash videos to HTML5 videos, which is a good thing – except all my work setting up browsers to prevent the autoplay of Flash videos is slowly unravelling. But all is not lost….. Install the Chrome extension below to prevent embedded HTML5 videos from autoplaying. The videos still load, and are available … Read More
Adobe Flash is not worth the trouble anymore
Monday 20th June 2016 Flash – it’s the web security disaster that just keeps on giving. Flash has been particularly popular for use on animated web sites used by K-12 schools. Adobe this week issued a patch for its Flash Player browser plug-in containing 36 – yes, 36 – security updates. One of these was for a critical zero-day vulnerability, which … Read More
Time to ditch Flash?
Wednesday 15th July 2015 The recent tidal wave of critical vulnerabilities in Adobe’s Flash Player has prompted many security professionals to call for the much-maligned software’s demise. Flash has been particularly popular for use on animated web sites used by K-12 schools. Adobe has patched more than twenty Flash vulnerabilities in the last week — some of them days after … Read More