Discussing the latest drive-by threat to Mac users that exploits an unpatched Java vulnerability known as CVE-2012-0507, Graham Cluley of Sophos blogs, “My advice is that if you have no real need for ...

In Mozilla Firefox for Mac, click Tools, Add-ons, and disable the Java plugin (s). Broken record alert: If you don’t need Java, remove it from your system, whether you are a Mac or Windows user.

Apple has issued an update for Mac OS X installations of Java that fixes at least one critical security vulnerability in the software.