Adobe plugs Flash webcam spy hole
Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 10:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Adobe engineers on Thursday fixed a vulnerability in its Flash software that could enable attackers to use a persons computer webcam or microphone feeds for spying on the person. Adobe made changes to an Adobe website page that controls Flash users security settings. The fix did not require users to do anything more than stop shaking. A few days before the Adobe fix, Feross Aboukhadijeh, a Stanford University computer science student, had gone public with his announcement of the Adobe flaw.