Oracle Corp. released an emergency update to its Java software for surfing the Web on Sunday, but security experts said the update fails to protect PCs from attack by hackers intent on committing ...

Oracle is set to patch more than three dozen Java bugs Tuesday and overhaul Java 7 security defenses to better flag suspect Java apps. "This critical patch update contains 42 new security ...

A serious Java vulnerability just patched by Sun Microsystems may still leave many Java users at risk, security experts say. The stack buffer overflow bug in Java, the WebStart utility in the Java ...

A security researcher known for finding Java bugs has uncovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all currently-supported versions of the popular Oracle software. The bug, which was publicly ...

A new exploit for a previously unknown and unpatched Java vulnerability is being actively used by attackers to infect computers with malware, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. “We ...

The discovery of a serious software bug has simultaneously opened a variety of desktop computers to potential attack. The flaw has been found in Java, which works on a variety of computer operating ...

Oracle’s October Critical Patch Update includes Java patches for the first time. Of the 127 updates, 50 patch remotely executable vulnerabilities in Java. On Tuesday, for the first time, Java security ...

PayPal has fixed a serious vulnerability in its back-end management system that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server and potentially install a backdoor. The ...

Some of the fixes for the Windows, Linux, and Solaris versions of Java Runtime Environment and Java Web Start were rated critical by outside researchers Sun patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows, ...

Apple today patched 15 vulnerabilities in three versions of Java used by Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard, bringing the operating system up to par with fixes that Sun issued a month ago. Today’s Leopard ...

Researchers who have dug into the exploit for the new Java CVE-1012-4681 vulnerability found that there are actually two previously unknown security bugs in Java 7 and that the exploit, which has been ...