When it comes to security, Sun tends to be subject to much less criticism than some other system software vendors we could mention. But one reader thinks that a little more scrutiny of Sun would be a ...

Users and Oracle both need to do their part against a malware industrial complex that can quickly attack any security hole Oracle will have to fight a war of attrition to keep Java secure, a security ...

Just after an emergency security patch was issued for Java, another serious flaw was found that would make it vulnerable again to attacks. A report on PC World cited data from Poland-based security ...

From the beginning, the Java programming language was designed with security in mind. Yet developers remained suspicious about its secure nature. They were blinded by the novelty of a portable ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.’s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop. On Tuesday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance ...

JavaOne is back, baby! And by that, I mean, back in the Bay Area. It was part of a little trade show diaspora that saw Oracle OpenWorld, among others, decamping to Las Vegas, but it returned this week ...

Google is developing a set of extensions for Java that should aid in better securing Java programs against buffer overflow attacks. Google is developing a set of extensions for Java that should aid in ...

Attackers using two recently-uncovered Java unpatched vulnerabilities, or “zero-days,” have quickly expanded their reach by going mainstream, security experts said today. And on Tuesday, Mozilla, ...

The security update, Java 7 Update 15, includes four fixes that address client-side vulnerabilities that could be exploited through Java Web Start applications on desktops and Java applets in Internet ...

Apple Friday released a Java security update to battle the Apple OS X malware known as Flashback. "This Java security update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware," according to a ...