The security of Oracle's Java software framework, installed on some three billion devices worldwide, is taking a turn for the worse, thanks to an uptick in attacks targeting vulnerabilities that ...

"The Security Manager dates from Java 1.0. It has not been the primary means of securing client-side Java code for many years, and it has rarely been used to secure server-side code. To move Java ...

Bit9 released a report last week underscoring the ongoing security risk to the enterprise posed by outdated versions of Java still up and running on company machines -- versions of the platform with ...

Millions of computer users who run the most recent versions of Oracle's Java software should disable the product owing to security flaws, says the cybersecurity section of the Department of ...

Java’s code-signing requirements have proven to be a bust, security researchers say, and now even longtime developers are losing faith in the programming language. Why would a software company ...

Oracle today released a critical update to its widely-installed Java software, fixing at least 29 security vulnerabilities in the program. Be aware that Java’s updater may by default also ...

but the Java exploitation process is too easy for the bad guys not to revisit it. The attacker does not have to think about problems with ASLR/DEP, SafeSEH and other security mechanisms included ...

Harry Sverdlove, Bit9's CTO, explained the problems. “For the past 15 years or so," he said, "IT administrators have been under the misperception that updating Java would address its security issues.

It came to our attention that the Java application blocker is prompting that self-assigned or untrusted applications have been blocked due to security settings. Due to this issue, some of the Java ...

Just a day after reports spread about a Java-based Trojan horse that could ... newly-discovered Flashback Trojan horse variant. The security holes in question were patched for Windows users ...

Learn More. Researchers at Security Explorations have uncovered a new critical zero-day flaw affecting all-supported versions of Oracle Java. The bug discovery was announced Sept. 26 on the Full ...