The hundreds of government, military and research organizations targeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word documents as ...

Microsoft has warned of three flaws affecting its software, the most serious of which would allow an attacker to gain full control of a PC using Java applets. The warnings, issued Wednesday, are ...

The price of freedom, as they say, is eternal vigilance. A user called bitbully on the Bitcointalk Forums found himself 34 bitcoins poorer when he visited a site claiming to be a chat service ...

A recently patched Java remote code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scareware, security researchers warn. The ...

Researchers have found a shortcoming in key security protection recently introduced in the browser plugin for Oracle's Java software framework, a flaw that makes it easier for attackers to sneak ...

So far, the vulnerability has been leveraged via Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox, and the attackers have reportedly been installing a dropper (Dropper.MsPMs), as well as a piece of malware known ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers. Thirty-nine of the ...

Remember the cross-platform malware that exploited Java to attack both PCs and Macs? Well here's a better one for you: a Trojan downloader that checks your operating system so it can pick which ...

Oracle engineers were briefed on critical vulnerabilities in the Java software framework more than four months before the flaws were exploited in malware attacks that take complete control of end-user ...