If you aren’t yet aware, Adobe updated and patched their Flash Player last week, and fixed nine weak spots in the app - most of them rated “highly critical”, where malware and hackers can take advantage of vulnerabilities in SWF files. These weaknesses are present in Windows, Linux and Mac.

Two of the bugs were caught and reported by Google engineers, and two by people from Stanford U. The update, Flash Player 9.0.115.0, can be downloaded from the Adobe website. Folk who still use Version 7 are advised to get the patched version of 7 rather than 9.0.115.0.

Mac users need not fret, though. If you got the last Security Update (2007-009 V.1.1) released just before Christmas, you’re already covered, as the Adobe update was already incorporated into it.

(Via Computerworld US Online)