How to really fix the latest Adobe Flash security hole

Another day, another Adobe Flash security hole and another Adobe Flash patch. This time around, the killer security problem was in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Chrome OS. In short, if you were running Flash, you were in trouble.

So what else is new?

Last year, on one infamous day, Adobe announced thirteen -- count 'em thirteen -- security vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash. This time around, a successful attack on the flaw could cause give an attacker full access to the affected system. Or, if that didn't work, it would crash the system. Oh boy.