The latest updates, Java 7 update 17 and Java 6 update 43, addressed CVE-2013-1493 and a related vulnerability (CVE-2013-0809), Oracle said in its security advisory released Monday. Both ...

Now Oracle has begun including the same adware as part of a default installation of Java for the Mac, using the same deceptive techniques. Written by Ed Bott, Senior Contributing Editor March 5 ...

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 ...

Oracle's newly released Java 7 runtime is relatively painless to install and uninstall. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Oracle is making the discovery capabilities in its cloud-hosted Java Management Service available free to all comers. Previously the capability was available only to users with an Oracle Java SE ...

Oracle is taking the final step to rid the web of its terrible Java browser plugin. While the plugin started off life back in the ‘90s as an innocent way to bring app-like features to browsers ...

Today, Oracle issued an emergency patch that it claims resolves the issue. It also changed the default security setting for Java to “High,” which finally means that most users will need to ...