The root issue, he said, lies in the default settings in place in the Java Control Panel. Signed applications and self-signed applications both are granted elevated privileges by default.

New default Stream<E> parallelStream() and default Stream<E> stream() methods were added to the java.util.Collection<E> interface to bridge between Collections and Streams.

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Java 7 Update 11 also brings about one other change to beef up the security that already existed in Java. With the newest patch, the default Java Security Level will be changed from medium to high.