Just hours after Oracle released a patch to Java 7, it has been found to be buggy again. It’s Groundhog Day. I first ran across this news at Ars.com, where the author, Dan Goodin, credited IDG with ...

Warning to anyone still using Java 6: Upgrade now to Java 7 to avoid being compromised by active attacks. That alert came via F-Secure anti-malware analyst Timo Hirvonen, who reported finding an ...

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Two months after Java 6 update 10 was released, Sun has just released update 11. For many users the new version will automatically be detected and installed, but you can always get it from the Sun ...

Oracle has added new features to Java designed to make it harder for hacked or malicious websites to carry out drive-by malware attacks that exploit underlying vulnerabilities in the widely used ...

If your computer is running Java and you have not updated to the latest version, you may be asking for trouble: A powerful exploit that takes advantage of a newly-disclosed security hole in Java has ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Java is probably one of the most important bits of software your computer runs. It allows you to use everything from certain websites to certain ...

December 6 — NextWave Systems has released PrintWeaver 3.1, a Java printing solution that extends the current J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4 print mechanism. The tool prints down and ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...