Faced with an onslaught of malware attacks that leverage vulnerabilities and design weaknesses in Java, Oracle Corp. recently tweaked things so that Java now warns users about the security risks of ...

Oracle announced enhancements to Java security around signed applets and certificate validation, but experts such as HD Moore want to see more work done to beef up the Java sandbox. Oracle is working ...

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced that Ausgrid, Australia's largest electricity distributor, has eliminated Oracle Java audit exposure and reduced potential Java licensing ...

Oracle’s Critical Patch update addresses 154 vulnerabilities, many of which are remotely exploitable. Security Explorations of Poland, meanwhile, published details on a number of Java flaws in the ...

In a blog post yesterday, Oracle outlined the steps its been taking and the investments it’s been making to ensure the security of Java, its beleaguered open-source programming language. Starting in ...

Oracle plans to make changes to strengthen the security of Java, including fixing its certificate revocation checking feature, preventing unsigned applets from being executed by default and adding ...

Beset by some very public vulnerabilities in Java, and apparently unable to properly patch those bugs, Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, experts said Monday. “Oracle should just take ...

Oracle received a public slap on the wrist from the US Federal Trade Commission over Java SE, the desktop runtime for Java. The FTC announced today that it had reached a settlement with Oracle ...

Oracle's latest quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU), released this week, provided 169 new security vulnerability fixes across Oracle's product lines, including 19 for Java. This CPU dealt with fewer ...

Most problems date back more than a decade and resulted from old versions of Java being run, a company official insists The impression persists that Java is still plagued with security problems after ...

There must have been some rare planetary alignment yesterday, because the oddest thing happened: Apple and Oracle both shipped software updates for the same Java security flaws on the very same day. I ...

Oracle has released fixes for multiple products, many of which are aimed at preventing remote exploitation without authentication. On Tuesday, the technology giant and Java software maker released its ...