Adobe Systems has issued an update for five vulnerabilities in its Shockwave Player, which is installed on some 450 million PCs. It classified the update as “critical,” its most severe rating.

Shockwave Player is used to display content created by Adobe’s Director program, which offers advanced tools for creating interactive content, including Flash. The Director application can be ...

Adobe has agreed to bundle the Google Toolbar with some versions of the free Shockwave Player. Google is getting its sticky fingers into all kinds of interesting places lately. Story.