Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are among the most user-hostile ...

Oracle today pushed out the third update in less than a month to fix critical vulnerabilities in its Java software. This patch plugs a dangerous security hole in Java that attackers have been ...

Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, “As if Java updates weren’t confusing already.” The changes were posted in an Oracle support document last ...

Oracle signage is seen outside Mocsone Center during Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco, California October 1, 2012. - Reuters Photo BOSTON, Sun Jan 13, 2013 - Oracle Corp released an emergency ...

On Friday, we noted that Apple had taken the rare step of using its anti-malware tools in OS X to disable existing installations of the Java 7 browser plug-in due to a major security vulnerability ...