If initial experiments are any indication, the team working on the Java Browser Edition (now called the Java Kernel) will be straying quite a bit from what users really need. What they need is a ...

Java’s browser plugin, the software attackers just love to exploit, is going away. Oracle, who owns Java, is retiring the plugin a year from now in their next SDK update.

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate ...

Oracle has announced that it will deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9. The technology will be removed from the Oracle JDK and JRE in a future Java SE release. The company said that by late ...

Java Applets, which rely on the Java browser plugin, have been particularly affected. These applets were once a popular way to deliver interactive content and applications over the web.

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

Come September 2016, the perennial threat vector otherwise known as the Java plugin will be deprecated and well on its way to being dead, decreased, and thankfully, an ex-plugin.

Do you still have Java turned on in your web browser? If your answer is “Yes” or “I’m not sure” then it’s time to take action.

Citing security and market forces as primary factors, Oracle said it will drop support for the Java browser plug-in in JDK 9.

Following an attack on a smaller number of corporate Macs that exploited a flaw in the Java browser plug-in, researchers from security firm FireEye warned users of yet another new Java zero-day ...

Now is the time to disable Java in your web browser, or even remove it from your system if that is practical. Why? The bad guys are hard at work trying to exploit a zero day vulnerability in the ...

Java is not as popular on websites as it once was, and the average browser will rarely run across it, Wisniewski says. Sadly, it does mean that my old favorite Java game, Voodoo Bowl, is out of ...