Adobe has issued a patch to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software. Separately, Oracle today released an update to plug more than two-dozen flaws in its Java software. Both programs ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

Ethan Nicholas was recently hired by Sun to work on his dream of a Java Browser Edition. Except they're calling it the Java Kernel now, and if initial experiments are any indication, the team will be ...

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Oracle has announced that it is finally killing off its Java browser plugin. The company has stated that the technology will be removed from the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) in the near future.

Internet users should take renewed caution when using both Adobe Flash and Oracle’s Java software framework; over the weekend, three previously unknown critical vulnerabilities that could be used to ...

If you visited the New York Times, the BBC, MSN or AOL within the last week, you may have unsuspectingly fallen victim to malware, according to reports from multiple internet security firms. The ads ...