Adobe Issues Warning About Security Hole In Flash 10.3

All you Flash users out there, beware! Adobe has issued a warning to everyone using it about a security hole in Flash 10.3. The bug could result in malware infected sites to take control of your Android handset, Windows and Linux based system. Even Solaris users out there are not safe with this particular hack. According to a bulletin released by Adobe, the bug is an universal cross-site scripting vulnerability. They have also added that this vulnerability is already being exploited by hackers in the form of email messages, luring users to click a malicious link.

If you however do manage to end up infecting yourselves it would in turn try to infect other websites, use e-mail, and access applications installed on your system. Anyway, there is reassuringly a fix available for the issue that could be downloaded from here.  All users on desktops should use the above link to patch the vulnerability.

Android users should head to the Android market to download and install the same fix.

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