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.

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.