Lightning Rod: keeps you safe from dirty Flashers
posted Jan 1st 2010 1:00pm by Mike Szczysfiled under: security hacks
A new open source package called Lightning Rod will help to close security exploits in Adobe’s dirty Flash code. A presentation made at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress showed that the package does its job by reviewing incoming code before the browser executes it. Heise Online is reporting that this method can block over 20 different known attacks and can even be used to filter out malicious JPG attacks. As more vulnerabilities are discovered they can be added to Lightning Rod to close the breach. This amounts to a virus scanner for Flash code. It’s great to have this type of protection but why can’t Adobe handle its security problems?
[Thanks das_coach]
I just received a security update from adobe for flash, seems they are trying to work out their ends.