The demo shows how to bypass Navigator’s Java Security Manager, which is supposed to prevent Java applets from reading local files.

What is the Java Security Manager? Java is known as a secure language for development because the JVM carefully controls what an application can do to the local host system. But as normally configured ...

Bit9 released a report last week underscoring the ongoing security risk to the enterprise posed by outdated versions of Java still up and running on company machines.

It's well known that Java platform applications are safe due to its security features. The security policy prevents any Java application from writing to files, creating network connections or ...

The new Java EE security API promises to deliver on features such as app portability across Java EE servers and when using modern programming concepts.