Oracle today released a security update for its Java platform that addresses at least 20 vulnerabilities in the software. Collectively, the bugs fixed in this update earned Oracle’s “critical” rating, ...

In an earlier article I outlined how running Java can increase the opportunities for malicious hackers to compromise your computer. There are several ways to protect yourself from these types of ...

Oracle has pushed a critical patch update for its Java SE platform that fixes at least 37 security vulnerabilities in the widely-installed program. Several of these flaws are so severe that they are ...

Mere hours after news broke that five new vulnerabilities had been found, Oracle on Monday announced the release of Java 7 Update 17 to address two separate vulnerabilities. The patch is being shipped ...

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 ...

A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) ...

The emergency Java SE security fixes comes two weeks before Oracle's regularly scheduled round of updates. The Oracle Java critical patch update contains fixes for 50 vulnerabilities, 49 of which are ...

Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for Java on Tuesday. Thirty-four vulnerabilities ...

Just a day after news broke that Apple had blocked Java for the second time this month, Oracle on Friday announced the release of Java 7 Update 13 to address 50 vulnerabilities. The patch comes more ...