NEW YORK — Some Mac users were taken by surprise Thursday as their computers stopped running programs written using the Java programming language after Apple blocked Java due to security problems.

Edward Snowden, who worked as a cyber security contractor for the US NSA, spent six quite and cautious days in India 2010 learning about ethical hacking and core Java programming.

Apple said a vulnerability in Oracle's Java programming language was used by the hackers Apple has said its computers were attacked by the same hackers who targeted Facebook. The iPhone-maker said ...

Security experts have developed a hybrid file type that looks like an image but can also run a Java applet surreptitiously in a browser.<br/> ...

Java should not be confused with a different programming language, Javascript, which is also used extensively across the web but is not implicated in these latest security issues.