Oracle Corp. released a critical update to plug at least 20 security holes in versions of its ubiquitous Java software. Nearly all of the Java vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to compromise ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about hardware and software YOU need to know about. Earlier this week a new and very serious vulnerability was discovered ...

UPDATE–Oracle last week patched the two zero-day vulnerabilities in Java that attackers had been exploiting in targeted attacks, but it didn’t take long for researchers to poke more holes in the ...

An impending update to Java might sound like just an incremental release, based on its cumbersome naming: Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Update 10 (Java SE 6 u10). But the upgrade actually features ...

If you get annoyed when the Java Auto Update alert intrudes on your work, you may have tried to turn the feature off. Java provides a convenient switch on its control panel for stopping the periodic ...

Sun Microsystems released on Monday a Java development kit that seeks to meld Java and scripting languages. The company released Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), the software needed to create Java ...

Yesterday we noted Apple's release of Java Update 1.4.2 Update 1, as well as a reader report that a Java-based site that previously didn't work under OS X worked after installing the update. Reader ...

Oracle updated Java on Tuesday 16 October 2012 and Apple followed suit a day later. Apple’s Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 11 is the latest in its efforts directed at keeping Java off Macs. It reminds ...

Sun has released a Java development kit that seeks to meld Java and scripting languages. Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), released on Monday, is used to create Java programs that run on desktop ...