After announcing last month that it had converted the ‘majority’ of its video slots away from the Flash Player multimedia innovation in favor of the open-standard HTML5 standard and online casino games developer NetEnt AB has now explained some of the reasons behind its move.
In a press release, Stockholm-listed NetEnt AB revealed that the Flash Player technology has suffered from an ‘endless stream of security vulnerabilities’ as the innovation is ‘one of the preferred methods’ exploited by cyber criminals to harm users around the world. The Swedish firm stated that computers utilizing the Linux, Windows, Chrome OS and Macintosh operating systems ‘are more likely to crash’ due to Flash Player and that this can often result in ‘a cyber attack that takes control o…