Yesterday the company Apple released Safari 5.1.7 for computer owners, this version of the browser automatically disables old versions of the flash player plugin. The measure was implemented to protect users against hackers and those from Adobe praise the initiative of the Cupertino company. Those from Adobe worked intensively on solving all the vulnerabilities of the flash player, but the new versions of the plugin were not installed by users, so they did not benefit from protection, but the measure implemented by Apple solves this problem.
We welcome today's initiative by Apple to encourage Mac users to stay up-to-date. A thank you to the security team at Apple for working with us to help protect our mutual customers. The vast majority of users who ever encountered a security problem using Adobe products were attacked via a known vulnerability that was patched in more recent versions of the software. This is why we've invested so much in the Adobe Reader/Acrobat update mechanism introduced in 2010, and more recently in the Flash Player background updater delivered in March.
Although the two companies have not had such a close relationship over the years, mainly because of Steve Jobs, now things seem to be getting better. In the future, the flash player will be replaced almost entirely by HTML 5, thanks to those from Apple, but this does not mean that we will be free from problems.
