YES, IT'S TRUE - FLASH NEEDS TO BE UPDATED

You may have read about the latest exploit of Adobe's Flash player plugin and ransomware. Yes, Adobe put out a fix two days ago, and probably already updated your software. To be sure, update it yourself here, and uncheck ALL of those boxes in the middle offering additional software: 

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

More info about the exploit and ransomware here:

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/cerber-ransomware-attacks-strike-adobe-flash-users-how-update-and-avoid-file-525400

If you're using Google Chrome you should know Flash is built-in and updates automatically. HOWEVER - you still have Internet Explorer and possibly Firefox on your computer and the Flash used by those browsers still needs to be updated - whether or not you ever use them.