Most recently, in January 2013, a new zero-day flaw affecting Java in web browsers was exploited. Apple and Mozilla are doing things to help fight the problem for their users, but you may decide that ...

The company and its business partners have created a standard for putting its "write once, run anywhere" technology into cell phones, it announces.

If you're on Mac OS X, choose either "Java Plug-in 2 for NPAPI Browsers" or "Java Applet Plugin" and click the Disable button. It's also advised to disable the Java Development Toolkit plugin as well.

For instructions on how to disable Java in Firefox, Chrome and Safari, click here.For instructions on disabling it in Internet Explorer, click here.The newly spreading exploit affects version 7 ...