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Adobe Flashes Firefox with Secure Sandbox

Category: Security, Author: Ronan, Added: 10 February 2012

Adobe's Flash Player plugin is among the most attacked pieces of software on the Internet today. While Adobe rapidly moves to fix urgent flaws as they emerge, they have also been moving towards a sandboxing approach that mitigates the risk of any potential flaws in Flash. After first appearing in Google's Chrome browser, the Flash sandbox is now on its way to Mozilla's Firefox.
The new Flash Player sandbox for Firefox is currently in a public beta and it aims to go beyond the process protections that Mozilla already affords to plugins.
Wiebke Lips, Senior Manager of Corporate Communications at Adobe, explained to

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