The recent Java bug is in the SecurityManager. In other words, the hole threatens mainly applets or Web-delivered Java fat clients. I generally don’t enable that stuff because little I use on the ...

In a tête-à-tête with ZDNet Asia at the recent Sun Tech Days developer conference in Kuala Lumpur, Gosling clears the air about Java and explains why the programming platform is now more user-friendly ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Given the fact that the interview is being pilfered for quotes in various articles on creating ...

The new series of articles "Secure Coding" provides a comprehensive guide to secure programming practices – specifically tailored to Java developers. In today's digital landscape, security is more ...

Azul Systems Inc. today announced the launch of Azul Vulnerability Detection, a new software-as-a-service product designed to continuously detect known security vulnerabilities in Java applications to ...

Nobody was ever fired for writing insecure code. My slightly reworked version of the popular adage, “Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM,” while not exactly true is accurate enough to be alarming.

Is Java safe to use? That's the refrain heard after every round of new zero-day vulnerabilities that get spotted in Java, followed days or weeks later by related patches from Oracle. But the question ...

Can you recommend an open source Java Secure Shell library that provides Secure FTP services in a Java client application? Yes – Jsch from www.jcraft.com is a pure Java implementation of SSH2 that ...

Helsinki-based F-Secure has just released its Threat Report for the first half of 2013, and much remains the same: Java in the browser is the main vector for attacks on PCs, Android is taking the ...