The Flash EOL was first announced in July 2017 when Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Facebook agreed to phase out Flash-based content and technologies from their products.Īt the time of writing, all major browsers have already disabled Flash in their products and are set to remove the actual Flash plugin from their codebases throughout December 2020 and January 2021.įacebook has already pushed most of its hosted games from Flash to HTML5 and JavaScript-based technologies years before.
Skipping this last Flash update won't remove this "time bomb," however.Īdobe told ZDNet that the killswitch code was added months before in previous releases and that this last Flash update only modifies the language used in the prompt that will ask users to uninstall the app. The new update also brings an actual date to Flash's actual demise in the form of Januthe date after which any type of Flash content won't run inside the Flash app. The update follows through with changes Adobe announced earlier this year in June.Īt the time, Adobe said it planned to show prompts to all Flash users by the end of the year with a notification that the software will soon reach its planned end-of-life. "In the latest Flash Player update released yesterday, we updated our uninstall prompt language and functionality to encourage people to uninstall Flash Player before the end of life and to help make users aware that beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe will block Flash content from running," an Adobe spokesperson told ZDNet. Systems running the Windows 10 Anniversary Update were shielded from two exploits even before Microsoft had issued patches for them, its researchers have found. Windows 10 security: 'So good, it can block zero-days without being patched'
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