Interesting new security threat....

[the-unknown]

Looks like an interesting vulnerability has been detected in the Flash players that most people have installed in your computers.

Seems to effect IE / Firefox / Opera / etc + whatever operating systems (including Vista and possibility of Linux / Mac)

More info here.

FYI, those with Flash Block and similar addons for Firefox are still vulnerable as those plugins do not block the loading of the flash objects - they just prevent the display in your browser.

Since I believe most of us have a vested interest in keeping our computers safe, (especially those without the gold cards), this might be of interest to you.

Please note the Windows Update (auto or otherwise)/ Firefox updates do not fix this issue. You have to manually update your Flash player. As it is, there are already track backs from russian sites in that first blog link - expect some new exploits to be made soon

More info from Adobe here.

PS : This is one of the coolest hack I have seen in a long time.