The news that Adobe Shockwave Player has a zero-day vulnerability which could potentially allow an attacker control of your computer is neither shocking nor unexpected. Adobe security flaws are like buses: if you missed the last one just wait for a while and another one is sure to turn up. However, it’s the unexpected bit of this particular zero-day that is the real news here.
After all, zero-day suggests an unknown vulnerability so how could we have expected this one this week? The answer, my friend, was blowing on the Twitter wind.
Amazingly, and very depressingly, a ’security researcher’ called Shahin Ramezany posted to Twitter that to celebrate getting 1000 Twitter followers he would “release an adobe 0day” and that’s exactly what he did.
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