There have always been new exploits being found daily, what's changed is the severity and wide reaching nature of said exploits. Actually, what's changed is a

There have always been new exploits being found daily, what's changed is the severity and wide reaching nature of said exploits. Actually, what's changed is a tendency to now give scary names to exploits and to insist on the importance of "branding and marketing" them to increase end user awareness, or something. It's gotten a little farcical, I think. It's also lead to a lot of ignorant impressions about free software, as of recent. In spite of the fact that everything is business as usual.