Oracle’s latest update of the Java Development Kit fails to go far enough in fixing the security-troubled platform, bringing only marginal improvements instead, experts say. 15 free security tools you ...

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 ...

Oracle announced enhancements to Java security around signed applets and certificate validation, but experts such as HD Moore want to see more work done to beef up the Java sandbox. Oracle is working ...

Things have been pretty quiet on the Java front since those difficult days of rolling upgrades to the troubled platform. This week, Oracle released an array of updates to Java, but it's not exactly ...

Oracle has already made some changes to Java and is working on new initiatives to improve security, Nandini Ramani, head of Java development at Oracle, wrote in a blog post on Friday. After a series ...

JDK 22 adds 10 new root CA certificates, a new asymmetric key interface, and a -XshowSettings option for displaying security settings. In a March 20 blog post on Oracle’s inside.java web page, Sean ...

Since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems a few years ago, Oracle has found itself tasked with protecting a technology that has increasingly come under the gun from attackers -- Java. According to ...

Oracle Corp. today released an update for its Java SE software that fixes at least 42 security flaws in the widely-installed program and associated browser plugin. The Java update also introduces new ...

Security researchers from Poland-based security firm Security Explorations claim to have discovered a vulnerability in the Java 7 security update released Thursday that can be exploited to escape the ...