Officials go with randomly selected words with unintentionally hilarious results. Filthy Python, anyone? US-CERT lists the 10 most-exploited security bugs and, yeah, it's mostly Microsoft holes people forgot to patch
Many memorable events get named, whether they're hurricanes, political events, or security incidents like the Morris Worm, which surfaced 32 years ago yesterday. But named security incidents recently have editorialized their own importance with fear-mongering monikers like Heartbleed (2014), Meltdown, Spectre, and Foreshadow (2018), and Fallout and ZombieLoad (2019). Not all do so. There have been less emotionally loaded bug names proposed, like CacheOut, CrossTalk, and RIDL, but name-amplified ...