Since the start of the year, hackers have been exploiting vulnerabilities in Java to carry out a string of attacks against companies including Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as home ...

Quickly patching vulnerable software is key to keeping computer systems secure. Yet, consumers are increasingly leaving their systems open to attack by failing to patch two ubiquitous third-party ...

When leafing through the pages of the recently ratified JSR-375, the new Java EE Security API, it's amusing how quickly the reading of the spec turns into an exercise of uttering to yourself, ...

Researchers from Security Explorations, a Poland-based vulnerability research firm, claim to have found two new vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11 that can be exploited to bypass the software’s ...

When it comes to security, Sun tends to be subject to much less criticism than some other system software vendors we could mention. But one reader thinks that a little more scrutiny of Sun would be a ...

Beset by some very public vulnerabilities in Java, and apparently unable to properly patch those bugs, Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, experts said Monday. “Oracle should just take ...

As you may be familiar, upwards of 86% of mobile devices are now Java-enabled. This mass scale Java adoption in mobile is merely a result of the interoperability issues third-party content developers ...

First, the bad news. Once again, Mac users are at risk due to a flaw in Java, similar to the one that enabled the Flashback Trojan. Even worse, there isn’t (yet) a patch to fix that vulnerability. But ...

If you start up your trusty Software Update this afternoon, you will find that Apple has graced you with not one, but two software updates. Now available are the Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 3 and ...

Java technology allows you to work and play in a secure computing environment. Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. Java ...