zedrin-maybe:

somedudeslife:

Please disable Adobe Flash until further notice. A group of hackers have hacked into the program for it and leaked a vulnerability that lets a malicious program do whatever it wishes to your computer via flash. This is currently ranked as a critical rating by Adobe.

These can mean forcing different sites to appear with flash on it (Screamers or revolting videos) and possibly encrypting your entire HDD.

As of writing this post (July 8th, 2015), the CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.

Please, do not open any untrusted flash content. Try to avoid opening flash content in general. I am begging you to share this information. Make your own posts, tell your family and friends, or anyone you know who has a computer. This is for you and your computer’s safety.

Source: Adobe and CERT

So, this is legit.

If you would like to disable Flash until this is fixed, here’s how you can do so:

Chrome
Type about:plugins, go to ‘Adobe Flash Player’ and click ‘disable.’

Firefox
Go to Tools > Addons > Plugins and disable ‘Shockwave Flash Player.’ You can also set it to ‘ask’ and run it on a case by case basis on sites you trust.

At the time of writing this I have noticed that the version that has issues is 

18.0.0.194 for Windows and Macintosh. My current version of flash (which I just updated) is 

18.0.0.203. I’m gonna check and see if the slight version difference changes anything, or if this was released to patch this issue, but for now I’d suggest maybe playing it safe.

And if you want to update flash from the official site, go here: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect (just uncheck the McAfee option)