Oracle Corp. released an emergency update to its Java software for surfing the Web on Sunday, but security experts said the update fails to protect PCs from attack by hackers intent on committing ...

Researchers have reported the existence of bugs in Java and Python which allows attackers to circumvent firewall defenses. In two separate security advisories over the past week, researchers Alexander ...

A Java update issued by Apple through Software Update last week contained a bug that could stop some Java applications working. Apple fixed the bug and released a new update, but if you did the ...

Fortify Software Inc. and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. The Java Open Review project (JOR) lets open-source projects ...

The discovery of a serious software bug has simultaneously opened a variety of desktop computers to potential attack. The flaw has been found in Java, which works on a variety of computer operating ...

Researchers said they've uncovered a flaw in the Java 7 update released by Oracle on Thursday that allows attackers to take complete control of end-user computers. The flaw in Java 7 Update 7, which ...

You may have seen recently that Java suffers from a similar floating-point parsing bug to the one that recently affected PHP users. The basic gist of it is that for this special 64-bit floating point ...

Oracle just scored points with the security community for rushing out an early patch for a critical security flaw in Java that was already being widely exploited by the cybercriminal underground. But ...