I just learned Snow Leopard installs a ~9 month old version of Flash instead of the latest version. So, some important security patches aren’t in the Snow Leopard release. I confirmed this for myself on my own installation just now and updated accordingly.
Check your version of Flash at Adobe’s site here (the newest is 10.0.32.18). Download the latest version from Adobe here. I first heard of this from The Cult of Mac, who talked to Graham Cluley of Sophos who writes more here about why this is important. Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team acknowledged the problem on their blog here.
UPDATE: Apple updates the old version of Flash in the 10.6.1 update here, or through Software Update.
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