Apple has issued a patch for Mac OS X that fixes a serious Java security flaw publicly disclosed six months ago, following criticism from security researchers. The vulnerability affects a number of ...

Microsoft has warned of three new flaws affecting its software, the most serious of which would allow an attacker to gain full control of a user's PC using a Java applet. The three warnings, all ...

A serious Java vulnerability just patched by Sun Microsystems may still leave many Java users at risk, security experts say. The stack buffer overflow bug in Java, the WebStart utility in the Java ...

If you've been watching the Java SE 7 release news, you know about the bug reported by the Apache Lucene community last week. The long-awaited release of a new version of standard Java apparently ...

Oracle Corp. released an emergency update to its Java software for surfing the Web on Sunday, but security experts said the update fails to protect PCs from attack by hackers intent on committing ...

The current version of Java 7 includes a bug that can be used to bypass all security defenses in the Java browser plug-in, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code using the Java runtime ...

Apple released macOS 14.4 nearly two weeks ago, but if you haven’t yet installed it, you might want to hold off. Oracle recently posted on its Java blog that Java processes on Macs running macOS ...

Researchers said they’ve uncovered a flaw in the Java 7 update released by Oracle on Thursday that allows attackers to take complete control of end-user computers. The flaw in Java 7 Update 7, which ...

You may have seen recently that Java suffers from a similar floating-point parsing bug to the one that recently affected PHP users. The basic gist of it is that for this special 64-bit floating point ...

A Google researcher has published details of a Java virtual machine bug that could be used to run unauthorized programs on a computer. The attack was disclosed Friday by Google’s Tavis Ormandy, who ...

Sun patched at least 14 vulnerabilities in Java Tuesday as it updated the popular software to version 6.0, build 11. The release notes for Java 1.6.0_11, as Sun dubbed the update, skimped on details ...