Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

This means that 9 out of 10 computers with Java installed can be compromised should users click on the wrong link, or visit legitimate websites that have been hacked to incorporate the malicious code.

Java source code does not compile directly into native machine code. Instead, Java compilation generates bytecode, which contains a high-level set of machine instructions that are general enough not ...