Next year, the Java browser plug-in, which is frequently the target of Web-based exploits, will be retired by Oracle.

The technology company Oracle is retiring its Java browser plug-in. The software is widely used to write programs that run in web browsers. But Oracle said modern browsers were increasingly ...

Topic warns that any developers working on apps that still rely on the Java plugin will switch to something else, like Oracle’s standalone Java framework Java Web Start.

Good news: Oracle says the next major version of its Java software will no longer plug directly into the user’s Web browser. This long overdue step should cut down dramatically on the number of ...

Oracle will support Java Web Start in Java 8 until March 2025 and products that have dependencies on Web Start will be supported on a timeline determined by those products.

Starting in April, Oracle will treat JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as if they were unsigned, which means modern releases of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will block those ...

Researchers from the Polish firm Security Explorations have identified a serious vulnerability in the latest version of Java that completely bypasses the new security level Oracle recently ...

Two of the critical flaws, in Java’s 2D component (CVE-2016-0494) and in Java’s AWT (CVE-2015-8126), can only be exploited through sandboxed Java Web Start applications and Java applets.