The weekly -- sometimes daily -- security scares that occur with the Java programming language are starting to remind me of the old whack-a-mole arcade game. Researchers or hackers discover a major ...

The Java programming language may be turning 20 years old, but it manages to stay young by taking on the day’s biggest computing challenges—including the Internet of Things. And by staying young, Java ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

Some Internet appliance and embedded device developers have concluded that current implementations of the Java specifications are either functionally incomplete for their use, too slow, too unreliable ...

What is Java to you? A programming language you learned in college? The lingua franca of corporate IT? Would you believe that Java is poised to dominate the next explosion of the Internet? Built for ...

The big news today was that Java is going to be released for free under the GPL license. This comes hot off the heals of Adobe's decision to open source their ActionScript Virtual Machine (my thoughts ...

Firefox, Chome, and Safari let you. But short of a complex, CERT-documented process, there's no reliable way to disable Java in IE No doubt you’ve heard the news: Oracle released Java 7, Update 11 on ...

At the recent MakerCon festival in San Francisco, inventors, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs displayed the latest connected devices that might be showing up soon in a store near you. The maker movement ...

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At the official Internet Explorer Team Blog, Microsoft announced that it will soon be releasing an update to the Internet Explorer that will block old Java versions for security purposes. The old Java ...

xStockholm, Sweden — An Internet-ready SNAP (Simple Networking Application Platform) hardware/software module has been released that includes multiple industry standard interfaces for local devices, ...

This week's zero-day threat involving multiple versions of Internet Explorer may frequently leverage the presence of Java on the infected machine. The memory corruption vulnerability, which was ...