Filed under: Security, Adobe, Mozilla, Browsers
Firefox catches 50% with insecure Flash, only 30% click through to update
Two weeks ago Mozilla prepared a new landing page for Firefox updaters to check for outdated versions of the Adobe Flash Player plugin. When the page went live last week for some six million Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 users, Mozilla compiled some interesting -- and disconcerting -- statistics.
Just over 50% of users shown the page were found to be running an insecure Flash Player version. That's an alarming number, especially considering the number of times Flash vulnerabilities have been exploited in the past two years alone.
The bad news doesn't stop there. As it turns out, the warning only convinced about 30% of viewers to click through and immediately update the plugin.
When you consider the amount of time most people spend browsing and massive number of threats lurking on the Internet maintaining a secure, updated browser is imperative. That, of course, means keeping plugins like Flash and Java up to date and there's no time like the present to do it.
Hopefully Mozilla's next push will meet with more success.
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