Billiards websites Designed with Flash Player - ARGHHH!

[Cueball_Goodman]

I tried to visit thorsten-hohmann.com to be welcomed by a black screen, no page.

I hope thorsten-hohmann.com does not require Adobe Flash Player, Flash Player is dead.

Flash is dead, long live Fl– actually, no, scratch that, Flash really is dead and it deserved to die. Flash is terrible.

The killer blows to Adobe’s multimedia browser plugin were delivered this week in a one-two punch. Firstly, users of Flash were left open to not one but two “zero-day” vulnerabilities in the same week, affecting users of Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. Almost immediately, hackers were able to abuse these flaws to dump malware on Windows PCs, which led Mozilla to disable the plugin entirely until users had updated to a secure version.

The Guardian - Flash is Dead, and YouTube Dealt the Killing Blow

To protect yourself from plugin vulnerabilities, follow these steps:

Uninstall plugins you don’t use. If you don’t use the Java plugin, you
shouldn’t have it installed. This helps reduce your “attack surface” – the
amount of software your computer has available to be exploited.

HowtoGeek - How You Can Be Infected via Your Browser and How to Protect Yourself

According to SCMagazine Adobe Flash Player is responsible for 16% of all
infections, so I don't have it on my system.

According to Danish security company CSIS, Windows machines are often infected because users forget to update the Java JRE, Adobe Reader/Acrobat and Adobe Flash.

It found the most vulnerable program to be Java JRE, with 37 per cent of users not updating it, followed by Adobe Reader and Acrobat (32 per cent) and Adobe Flash Player (16 per cent). These were followed by unpatched flaws in Internet Explorer (ten per cent), Windows HCP (three per cent) and Apple Quicktime Player (two per cent).

SCMagazine - Unpatched Java flaws 'cause the most infections'

However, I would recommend that if you use Flash, you should strongly consider removing it, or at least hobbling it until and unless you need it. Disabling Flash in Chrome is simple enough, and can be easily reversed:...

If you’re concerned about removing Flash altogether, consider a dual-browser approach. That is, unplugging Flash from the browser you use for everyday surfing, and leaving it plugged in to a second browser that you only use for sites that require Flash.

KrebsonSecurity - Adobe, MS Push Patches, Oracle Drops Drama

The technology industry finally agrees on one thing: Flash must die.

The fever pitch to bring the death of Adobe Flash is accelerating.

Following the high profile breach of the surveillance company Hacking Team, critical zero day bugs were discovered in Flash that allowed attackers to take over user’s machines to steal information or hold them for ransom.

After the Hacker Team Flash vulnerabilities became public over the weekend, Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos called for the end of Flash once and for all.

Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs famously lambasted Flash for its lack of battery efficiency and security shortly before his death. Google would follow by ending support for Flash on Android in December 2011.

One of the reasons the video plugins like Flash and Silverlight are no longer needed on the Web is due to the rise of HTML5 video standards.

ARC Applause - The Call To Kill Adobe’s Flash In Favor Of HTML5 Is Rising

And finally...The last word on Flash by Adobe:

Ding dong, Flash is dead. Well, not quite -- Adobe's announcement that it will now "encourage content creators to build with new Web standards" such as HTML5 is a direct blow against Flash...

The fact that Adobe is publicly admitting Flash is no longer the dominant Web technology is significant. The company already offers slew of stand-alone HTML5 design and development tools under the Edge brand.

There are plenty of "Flash is dead" stories -- partly because smartphones don't support the technology, not to mention all the security issues associated with the plug-in. In recent months, visitors to major Web brands were infected by malware pushed by malicious online advertisements playing on the sites. The malvertising boom may have played a role in Google's decision to no longer Auto-Play Flash content in Chrome.

Infoworld - Adobe tells developers to use HTML5 instead of Flash

Please redesign the thorsten-hohmann.com website without flash.

-Cueball_Goodman

 

[iusedtoberich]

Its entirely in flash, even the links. I don't think you should hold your breath waiting for it to update to a newer technology though, as the site content itself does not look to have been updated since 2007.

 

[erhino41]

Just follow your own advice and you can visit the site.

 

[Cueball_Goodman]

WTF? Did this guy just join up to tell us this? Awesome Post.

Just follow your own advice and you can visit the site.

If you're interested in being more secure while surfing your favorite Billiard sites, then the info will be useful to you.

If you're interested in Billiards and Web Design then the above information will be useful to you.

If you don't care about Web Design or being safer while you surf the web, then the information doesn't matter to you.

I have followed the advice listed (highlighted in bold) and I have no Flash Player installed on my system. Adobe products account for 1 out of every 2 infections.

More AZBilliard posts to come. WTF?

P.S. My high run in Straight Pool is 28. ;P

 

[pt109]

If you're interested in being more secure while surfing your favorite Billiard sites, then the info will be useful to you.

If you're interested in Billiards and Web Design then the above information will be useful to you.

If you don't care about Web Design or being safer while you surf the web, then the information doesn't matter to you.

I have followed the advice listed (highlighted in bold) and I have no Flash Player installed on my system. Adobe products account for 1 out of every 2 infections.

More AZBilliard posts to come. WTF?

P.S. My high run in Straight Pool is 28. ;P

Thanx for this thread....I'm just a user...and not all that knowledgable...my ThinkPad is using Windows 7 and Widows 10 is becoming such a nuisance that I'm thinking it's a hacker....my buddy who works for IBM told me to bring it to him....gonna install '10' and clean it up.....I'm going to show him this thread.
haven't upgraded Java for ages....could be a good thing.