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 ...

Apple today released updated versions of Java 6 for OS X, bringing additional improvements to security, reliability, and compatibility. This is a standard update to Java 6, which is distributed by ...

Java’s code-signing requirements have proven to be a bust, security researchers say, and now even longtime developers are losing faith in the programming language. Why would a software company require ...

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 ...

I have written a small applet that runs a particular algorithm to help me and a team of other students with some research we are working on. I would like to be able to use a file of the user's ...

Researchers from the Polish firm Security Explorations have identified a serious vulnerability in the latest version of Java that completely bypasses the new security level Oracle recently introduced ...

Is the design of Oracle's Java 7 security sandbox backwards? That charge was leveled by programmer Jerry Jongerius, who last week released a Java Code Signing Failure alert detailing how Java security ...

As we noted earlier, there’s a rather large security hole with Java in Web browsers in all versions of OS X. Because of the way Java applets work, you can be attacked by simply visiting (not even ...

Java applets may fully compromise Notes users with just one click from cyber-criminals sending them through HTML e-mails, according to an IBM security advisory. The vulnerabilities affect 8.0.x, 8.5.x ...