80% of Web Users Running Unpatched Versions of Flash/Acrobat

From ZDNet (Dancho Danchev)

According to a research published by Trusteer earlier this month, 79.5% of the 2.5 million users of their Rapport security service run a vulnerable version of Adobe Flash, with 83.5% also running a vulnerable version of Acrobat.

The company has also criticized Adobe by insisting that their update mechanism “does not meet the requirements of a system that is used by 99% of users on the Internet and is highly targeted by criminals“, but is praising the update mechanism of Google’s Chrome and Firefox, whose silent updates close the window of opportunity for malicious attackers to take advantage of.  Read the full story [zdnet.com]  See the Trusteer study [PDF]

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