Adobe has worked with Apple to sandbox Flash Player under, restricting the ability of attackers to exploit any vulnerabilities they might find in the browser plug-in. “With this week’s release of Safari in OS X Mavericks, Flash Player will now be protected by an OS X App Sandbox,” Peleus Uhley, platform security strategist at Adobe, said Wednesday in a. A sandbox is a mechanism that enforces certain restrictions on how an application interacts with the underlying operating system. Sandboxing Flash Player under Safari on Mac OS X increases the level of protection against Web-based attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to install malware on systems. The majority of these attacks target Windows computers, but Mac users have had their fair share of problems because of vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins like Flash Player or Java. In April 2012 attackers exploited a Java vulnerability to infect around 670,000 Mac OS X computers with. In February, Adobe to patch two critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, one of which was being exploited in attacks against Firefox and Safari users on Mac OS X.
Because of such attacks, Apple started blacklisting outdated versions of Java and Flash Player in Safari through XProtect. With the new Safari release in Mavericks, “Flash Player’s capabilities to read and write files will be limited to only those locations it needs to function properly,” Uhley explained. “The sandbox also limits Flash Player’s local connections to device resources and inter-process communication (IPC) channels. Finally, the sandbox limits Flash Player’s networking privileges to prevent unnecessary connection capabilities.” “The result is that customers can still view Flash Player content while benefiting from these added security protections,” Uhley said.
Adobe Flash Player for Mac lets you access Flash content in Web sites when using browsers like OS X's Safari. The plug-in integrates seamlessly and through a.
Sandboxing Flash Player under Safari on Mac OS X is the latest step in the company’s plan to secure the plug-in across different platforms and browsers. On Windows, Flash Player already has been sandboxed under Google Chrome since March 2011, under Mozilla Firefox since June 2012 and under Internet Explorer 10 since it was released on Windows 8.
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The Flash Player 11.3 beta brings improved support for the Mac App Store, support for older graphics cards, and more. Installing Flash Player on a Mac is a surefire way to ensuring all of your processing power and RAM is maxed out on a frequent basis. Whether you’re watching a video on YouTube or playing a simple puzzle game, the second Flash begins to load your system becomes an unstable mess.
Unfortunately, a lot of sites still insist on using Flash content, so you’re forced to install it or put up with a half-baked worldwide web. But it’s good to know Adobe is still hard at work on improving the experience. The company has just released the first Flash Player 11.3 beta for Mac OS X, which features all sorts of enhancements and tweaks. Flash Player 11.3, version 11.3.300.214, brings a new backgrounder updater to the Mac, which means you’ll no longer have to download updates manually. Adobe also claims that it has “relaxed” the driver gating hardware acceleration to 2006, which could mean older graphics cards and chipsets, like the Intel GMA 950, will now support hardware acceleration. There are also improvements to mouse control, the introduction of texture streaming, and improved support for the Mac App Store.
For developers, there are a number of enhancements to Adobe AIR Mobile, including screen DPI support for the new iPad’s Retina display, ADT support for the new 144×144 icons added in AIR 3.3, and more. The beta requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later, and it’s compatible with Safari 5, Firefox 4 and above, and all versions of Google Chrome and Opera 11.