Java is regularly in the news, and not for reasons it would want to be. Every other day, some zero-day Java vulnerability or the other is found, a security advisory is released, and within a few days, ...

Six years have passed since I wrote “Plug into Java with Java Plug-in” for JavaWorld. My earlier article defined Java Plug-in, showed how to install version 1.2 for Netscape Communicator 4.5 and ...

Mozilla has blacklisted unpatched versions of the Java plug-in from Firefox on Windows in order to protect its users from attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities in those versions. Mozilla can add ...

Good news: Oracle says the next major version of its Java software will no longer plug directly into the user’s Web browser. This long overdue step should cut down dramatically on the number of ...

Even after Oracle patched critical Java vulnerabilities on Monday, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) continued urging users to disable Java browser plug-ins. “Due to the number and ...