{"id":300,"date":"2015-11-03T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T09:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/?p=300"},"modified":"2015-11-03T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T09:20:05","slug":"flash-must-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/2015\/11\/03\/flash-must-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash must die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-301\" alt=\"Ming The Merciless\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2015\/11\/Flash-Gordon-Icon-flash-gordon-28302952-200-200.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2015\/11\/Flash-Gordon-Icon-flash-gordon-28302952-200-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2015\/11\/Flash-Gordon-Icon-flash-gordon-28302952-200-200-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>This message sponsored by Ming the Merciless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>An interesting story <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2015\/11\/hackers-use-anti-adblocking-service-to-deliver-nasty-malware-attack\/\">from Ars Technica<\/a>. Hackers took control of a site which site authors use to inject anti-adblock code to their pages. They then injected code into the site which popped up a window telling users their Flash install was out of date, and offering a link to a download which was &#8211; of course &#8211; malware.<\/p>\n<p>A few lessons from this &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s still best to have no Flash installed, as then you\u00a0<em>know<\/em> it&#8217;s a malicious popup<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still going to run AdBlock to avoid compromises of ad servers<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still going to remove Flash on any computer I see<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This message sponsored by Ming the Merciless&#8230; An interesting story from Ars Technica. Hackers took control of a site which site authors use to inject anti-adblock code to their pages. They then injected code into the site which popped up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/2015\/11\/03\/flash-must-die\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93hP-4Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}