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Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate the ...

Applets may no longer be in vogue, but opinions vary whether Oracle's Java Web Start is a viable alternative Oracle’s plan to dump its Java browser plug-in came as no surprise to two ISVs in the Java ...

Four of the five vulnerabilities addressed in the Tuesday updates can be exploited through Java Web Start applications on desktops and Java applets in Internet browsers, Eric Maurice, Oracle’s ...

A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) ...

A flaw in the Java Web Start platform could be exploited to allow any Java applet to read, write and run on the affected machine. The flaw is in the way Java applications are handled in the “sandbox.” ...

Researchers from the Polish firm Security Explorations have identified a serious vulnerability in the latest version of Java that completely bypasses the new security level Oracle recently introduced ...

First, the bad news. Once again, Mac users are at risk due to a flaw in Java, similar to the one that enabled the Flashback Trojan. Even worse, there isn’t (yet) a patch to fix that vulnerability. But ...

Java is a popular computing platform, but lately, Java is blamed for its security vulnerabilities. It is recommended by many to disable or completely uninstall Java. However, there are applications ...

Isn’t Java Web Start (JWS) supposed to allow web-based distribution of applications? So why would one want to distribute a Java Web Start (JWS) application via CD-ROM? Well, for a number of reasons.