


Now it is extending sandboxing to Apple's Safari via Mavericks, which Cupertino rolled out earlier this week.

Finally, the sandbox limits Flash Player's networking privileges to prevent unnecessary connection capabilities."Īdobe has already done the same for Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Mozilla's Firefox. "The sandbox also limits Flash Player's local connections to device resources and inter-process communication (IPC) channels. "As you might expect, Flash Player's capabilities to read and write files will be limited to only those locations it needs to function properly," Peleus Uhley, a platform security strategist at Adobe, wrote in a blog post. What that means is that Flash will be contained - or sandboxed - in order to make it more difficult for scammers to take advantage of Flash and infect Macs running Mavericks with malicious software.
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