Firefox, for example, has a blocked plugins list that includes Java plugin 7 update earlier than 44 and Java Plugin 6 updates earlier than 45. Google Chrome introduced a similar blocklist in 2011.

Old, buggy versions of the Java plugin have long been used as an exploit vector, with Microsoft's own security report fingering Java in 84.6 to 98.5 percent of detected exploit kits (bundles of ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

Microsoft today announced an important Internet Explorer update that will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. It will be released along with the next Windows update and other security updates ...

Microsoft’s Edge browser doesn’t support plug-ins either. With Internet Explorer and Safari the only browsers set to still accept traditional NPAPI plug-ins after 2016, Oracle is pretty much ...

Come September 2016, the perennial threat vector otherwise known as the Java plugin will be deprecated and well on its way to being dead, decreased, and thankfully, an ex-plugin.

The Java web plugin will be deprecated starting JDK version 9, which is scheduled to be released sometime in September. It will be completely removed in both JDK and JRE in a still undetermined ...

Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web. Those plugins use a 1990s-era API called ...

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will soon roll out an Internet Explorer update that will automatically block old, insecure ActiveX controls. Dubbed out-of-date ActiveX control blocking, the ...