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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced an important Internet Explorer update that will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. It will be released along with the next Windows update and other security updates coming ...

Java is a security headache, not just for users and Oracle, its provider, but also for other software companies that have to deal with it, as well. Microsoft has taken steps to address this problem by ...

Microsoft can take some solace that it is not alone in sending out security updates that don’t fully address a zero-day vulnerability. A researcher at Immunity Inc., put Oracle on a similar hot seat ...

At the official Internet Explorer Team Blog, Microsoft announced that it will soon be releasing an update to the Internet Explorer that will block old Java versions for security purposes. The old Java ...

The website belonging to non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders is the latest to be hit by attacks that use the recently patched Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities to ...

Two applications most of us have installed on our Windows computers and which need to be updated very frequently are Flash and Java. Java is a technique used to create animated or interactive web ...

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 ...

Recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Java and Internet Explorer have been used in targeted attacks that appear to be aimed at critics of the Chinese government. Tuesday, Jindrich Kubec, director of ...

As promised by the technician, uninstalling the update and reinstalling the old version of Java did the trick. I can’t say that the Oracle site is the easiest thing that I have ever navigated, but, ...