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The Adobe Flash web technology has long enabled content creators to offer interactive online gaming, video, and education services but Flash has also long struggled with malware and vulnerabilities. There are much better and safer web technologies available now. No wonder major web browsers have been automatically blocking Flash. Adobe itself has confirmed today that it’s finally going to kill Flash by the end of 2020.

We know that the end was near for Flash as major web browsers like Chrome, Safari, and Microsoft Edge have all started blocking Flash since last year. A Flash experience is not loaded until the user manually clicks on it to give their consent that they want it to load.

A spokesperson for Adobe has confirmed that the company will remove support for Flash by the end of 2020. It will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020. Adobe encourages content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to new open formats.

Adobe will continue to support Flash until 2020 alongside partners that include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple. Google is going to continue phasing out Flash over the new few years while Microsoft is going to remove it entirely from all supported versions of Windows by 2020.

Apple supports the 2020 end of life for Flash as well while Mozilla will allow Firefox Extended Support Release users to keep using Flash until the end of life date.

Godspeed, Flash.

Adobe Flash Will Finally Die In 2020 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

You’d think that an ethical hacker who discovers a vulnerability before the bad guys do and reports it to the authorities would not end up behind bars. Sure enough, countless companies run bounty programs to encourage ethical hackers to test their defenses and report any and all vulnerabilities so that they can be patched before any harm is done. That’s not what Budapest’s public transportation authority did when a teenage ethical hacker discovered a major security flaw in its website. He ended up behind bars.

The 18-year-old Hungarian hacker was arrested after he discovered an exploit in the public transportation authority’s website and reported it to the authority.

The website is used for selling tickets as well and it was on that page that the vulnerability was discovered. He found out that the ticket prices could be altered by just changing them in the page’s source code using the developer tools of the web browser.

This enabled him to purchase a $35 ticket for just $0.20. The ticket purchase was processed because the transportation authority’s website had no validation process in place on both the client and server side.

He contacted the transportation authority after discovering this but instead of receiving a bounty or even a word of gratitude, he was reported to the police and a complaint was filed against him for “hacking” the system.

The internet has rallied against the incarceration of a white hat hacker, though, and there are talks of protests being organized. Even though the transportation authority said that it has fixed the flaw, plenty of other white hat hackers have taken to Twitter to point out several other flaws in the code. Some have gone so far as to refer to its website as a “train wreck.”

Hungarian Teen Discovers Major Security Flaw, Gets Arrested , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Is Google about to make search results annoying? It seems so. We tend to have divided opinions about videos that autoplay. I’m not a fan and I’m sure there are many who agree with me. According to a new report, Google is testing out autoplaying videos in search results. In my view, that’s a really spectacular way of making your core product very annoying. Woudn’t you agree?

According to a report, Google is autoplaying videos in search results that bring up a video in the knowledge panel on the right side of the results. The video is played automatically when the search results page is loaded.

You can search for some movies and possibly even TV shows in Google right now and a relevant video that pops in within the knowledge panel will start playing on its own when the results page is loaded.

As we’ve seen with autoplaying videos on other platforms, the video is played with the sound turned off by default. The user has to click on the video for the audio to be enabled. The videos are not replayed so they autoplay just once.

The test appears to be limited to desktop users for now. The videos do appear in the knowledge panel on mobile but require a tap to play.

A spokesperson for the company has confirmed that this functionality is being tested, however, it’s not confirmed if Google will keep it for good. “We are constantly experimenting with ways to improve the Search experience for our users, but have no plans to announce at this time,” the spokesperson said.

Autoplay Videos Are Coming To Google Search Results , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

But unlike you, she didn’t have insurance, so she could not follow through with the treatment.