

Website, to have certain features and such,” he said. “We have a number of other hosted websites throughout the university for differentĭepartments that probably use Flash, and they need that reminder as well because theyĭon't usually utilize it in a browser capacity but more as a functionality on their Other university web developers, however, may need to do the same. The Kronos team, for example, isĪlready in the process of removing the plug-in from the university’s payroll and timekeeping Their systems to new, open standards like HTML5. He’s also the person who will reach out to system owners 90 days before the FlashĮnd-of-life (EOL) date to notify them that they need to discontinue use or convert Of Utah and University of Utah Health, and helping departments patch their systemsĭylan Tomac, threat and vulnerability analyst, Cybersecurity Operations Tomac is responsible for identifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities at the University

So it's something that Adobe has needed to discontinueįor a while,” said Dylan Tomac, a threat and vulnerability analyst for the Information Security Office’s Cybersecurity Operations team.

“It's an archaic software, it is full of bugs, and over 1,000 vulnerabilities haveīeen discovered since 2005. Streaming audio and video - just short of its 20 th birthday. But, as they say, all good things - if you can still refer to the glitchy, outdatedĪfter December 31, 2020, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player - used for viewing multimedia content, executing rich internet applications, and
