Java 7 Update 11 also brings about one other change to beef up the security that already existed in Java. With the newest patch, the default Java Security Level will be changed from medium to high.

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

A new Java exploit was discovered yesterday that bypasses the Java security model using clever social engineering that takes advantage of weak security settings in the Java security control panel.

The default-java folder is a symbolic link to the actual location of the JDK install on Ubuntu. When you reference the JDK install location in applications or in environment variables such as ...

Oracle hasn't had a great start to 2013. It's barely into the new year, and Apple and Mozilla are already putting up roadblocks to some Java versions after discoveries of significant browser-based ...