The emergency Java SE security fixes comes two weeks before Oracle's regularly scheduled round of updates. The Oracle Java critical patch update contains fixes for 50 vulnerabilities, 49 of which are ...

If you get annoyed when the Java Auto Update alert intrudes on your work, you may have tried to turn the feature off. Java provides a convenient switch on its control panel for stopping the periodic ...

In an earlier article I outlined how running Java can increase the opportunities for malicious hackers to compromise your computer. There are several ways to protect yourself from these types of ...

Oracle today released a security update for its Java platform that addresses at least 20 vulnerabilities in the software. Collectively, the bugs fixed in this update earned Oracle’s “critical” rating, ...

Go ahead and update Java—or disable it if you don’t remember the last time you actually used it on the Web: Oracle’s latest patch, released Tuesday, fixes 25 vulnerabilities in the aging platform, ...

There’s relief available for users who applied a recent Java update that stopped some web applications from being able to launch. Oracle has issued Java 7 Update 67 which contains a fix for the ...