Last week, a researcher going by the name "kafeine" spotted a number of sites that were abusing a zero-day vulnerability in Java 7 Update 10. In the wild, the exploitation was confirmed by several ...

After downloading or updating Java, a pop-up will ask you to "set Yahoo as your homepage and default search engine." I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced ...

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 ...

Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are among the most user-hostile ...