7 Infamous Moments in Adobe Flash's Security History End-of-life is here: Adobe's support for Flash is gone as of Jan. 1. Here's what we won't miss about the multimedia software platform. Show of hands for those who will mourn Adobe Flash – and it's hellish 1,500-plus critical security holes – when its flame dies out on Jan. 1. Anyone? Anyone? That's what we thought. But make no mistake: The ecosystem that spawned such a security nightmare is likely pregnant again with another software security horror because "Flash was not a fluke," according to At-Bay founder/CEO Rotem Iram, it in his most excellent ode to the end of a software security serial killer.