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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Business users of Java SE 8 have been told that they will no longer receive patches and security updates for the software from the beginning of next year, unless they write a cheque for a commercial ...

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 ...

There’s relief available for users who applied a recent Java update that stopped some Web applications from being able to launch. Oracle has issued Java 7 Update 67 which contains a fix for the ...

The recent exposed a problem that OS X has with Java--specifically, that the development of Java on the Mac hasn't kept pace with the Java for Windows or Linux. Flashback uses an unpatched Java ...

Oracle's Critical Patch Updates keep getting bigger. The database giant addressed a number of remotely exploitable flaws in Java, MySQL, and Oracle Database this quarter Bigger is not necessarily ...