The latest Java update released Tuesday includes new prompts warning users of potentially malicious applets, in addition to patches for 42 vulnerabilities, all but three of which are remotely ...

After announcing a fix was coming just yesterday, Oracle on Sunday released Java 7 Update 11 to address the recently disclosed security vulnerability. If you use Java, you can download the latest ...

Browser plugins have long been a source of headaches for IT security, often requiring monthly — and quite often emergency — patches to plug the security holes in ...

Browser vendors are moving away from plug-ins. Now Oracle is encouraging developers to migrate Java Applets to the plug-in free Java Web Start technology With browser plug-ins going the way of the ...

Four of the five vulnerabilities addressed in the Tuesday updates can be exploited through Java Web Start applications on desktops and Java applets in Internet browsers, Eric Maurice, Oracle’s ...

One of the world's most controversial software products, Java, will soon be pulled from the market as a web browser plug-in. Parent company of the Java programming language and development framework, ...

Researchers from the Polish firm Security Explorations have identified two new vulnerabilities in the latest version of Java, which was released just this week to address two other security holes. The ...

Now that Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari stopped or will soon stop supporting NPAPI web plug-ins*, Oracle thought it best to accept the Java plug-in's fate and let it go. The company has announced ...

Last week, a researcher going by the name "kafeine" spotted a number of sites that were abusing a zero-day vulnerability in Java 7 Update 10. In the wild, the exploitation was confirmed by several ...

Oracle fixed on Tuesday 127 security issues in Java, its database and other products, patching some flaws that could let attackers take over systems. This is the first time Oracle has included Java in ...

The new updates, Java 7 Update 15 and Java 6 Update 41, address five additional vulnerabilities that couldn’t be included in the emergency Java update that Oracle released on Feb. 1 due to time ...