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Here’s how Apple is protecting you from outdated versions of Flash Player

12
Jul
2014

As if Apple hadn’t made a strong enough case against Flash already, Adobe announced this week that a security vulnerability had been discovered in the most recent version of Flash Player. Adobe quickly addressed the issue, but Apple took safety measures a step further by adding any version of Adobe Flash Player version below 14.0.0.145 (and 13.0.0.231 on older machines) to its plugin blacklist. If you reach a page with a Flash plugin while browsing with an older version of the player, a message will appear on your screen with the warning “Blocked plug-in,” “Flash Security Alert” or “Flash out-of-date” in Safari. If you click the indicator, an alert will pop up. Once it does, follow these steps to make sure you’re updated

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