Last week’s notice by researchers at Security Explorations of an unpatched hole in the Java runtime environment may have left you wondering whether to disable Java until Oracle releases a patch.

Reports of the wavering popularity of Java in the U.S. in the face of growing interest in languages like Kotlin don't seem to have influenced the large community of Java jocks in the UK and Ireland.

Java is a security headache, not just for users and Oracle, its provider, but also for other software companies that have to deal with it, as well. Microsoft has taken steps to address this problem by ...

An update to IE 8 through IE 11 next week will introduce a new warning when users try to run an outmoded Java ActiveX control Microsoft today said that Internet Explorer (IE) will begin blocking ...

Microsoft must distribute Java technology from Sun in every copy of Windows and Internet Explorer that it ships, a federal judge ruled Monday. Microsoft must distribute Java technology from Sun in ...

An unpatched hole in the Java runtime environment was found by researchers at Security Explorations recently. This has prompted many users to disable Java until a patch is released by Oracle. Although ...

The patches are out for both Java and Internet Explorer, but this is hardly the end of the story - or the hand wringing. Also: a SCADA-pocalypse! If you work in IT security, this week started off with ...