A design flaw in Java gives hackers a way to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer, Google researcher warns A Google researcher has published details of a Java virtual machine bug that ...

You may have seen recently that Java suffers from a similar floating-point parsing bug to the one that recently affected PHP users. The basic gist of it is that for this special 64-bit floating ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle Corp. has issued an update to Java SE that fixes a number of critical bugs in the widely used Internet software.Nine of the 17 bugs that the company patched on Tuesday ...

Oracle Corp. bought Java as part of a $7.3 billion acquisition of the software’s creator, Sun Microsystems, in 2010. Oracle, which is based in Redwood Shores, Calif., had no immediate comment ...

A Google researcher has published details of a Java virtual machine bug that could be used to run unauthorized programs on a computer. The attack was disclosed Friday by Google’s Tavis Ormandy ...

More on Java 7 Bug: Q&A with Uwe, Comments from Geir . If you've been watching the Java SE 7 release news, you know about the bug reported by the Apache Lucene community last week. The long-awaited ...

The "leap second bug" hit just as the web was recovering from a major outage to Amazon Web Services, an online operation that runs as much as 1 percent of the internet.Some operations, including ...

"When combined with some of the April 2012 issues, this new issue can facilitate a successful code execution attack on [the] latest [version of the software,] Java SE 7 Update 7," writes Security ...

The company continued to report Java 7 vulnerabilities to Oracle in the following months until the total number reached 29. “We demonstrated 16 full Java SE 7 sandbox compromises with the use of ...

According to Morgan, the Java bug, also known as an FTP protocol injection flaw, "allows one to fool a victim's firewall into allowing TCP connections from the Internet to the vulnerable host's ...