The unpatched Java vulnerability reported last week could be exploited by malware to infect your system, although no such infections have been discovered to date. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

This week's zero-day threat involving multiple versions of Internet Explorer may frequently leverage the presence of Java on the infected machine. The memory corruption vulnerability, which was ...

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Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

Update, update, update: Form that habit now, if you haven’t already, to keep up with security fixes. The latest include the usual tweaks to fend off malicious attacks, and a fix to Java that should ...

Most browser installations use outdated versions of the Java plug-in that are vulnerable to at least one of several exploits currently used in popular Web attack toolkits, according to statistics ...

This month's Patch Tuesday update for Internet Explorer will include a new feature: it will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. More specifically, it will block out-of-date versions of the Java plugin ...

Oracle said Sunday that it has released a patch for its Java software after a bug in the program opened users to malicious hacking. Security researchers first drew attention to the vulnerability last ...