Just hours after Oracle released a patch to Java 7, it has been found to be buggy again. It’s Groundhog Day. I first ran across this news at Ars.com, where the author, Dan Goodin, credited IDG with ...

Earlier this month, Oracle released a new version of Java, 1.6.0_21 (also called 6u21). Unfortunately as Eclipse users quickly discovered, it was incompatible with Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client ...

Warning to anyone still using Java 6: Upgrade now to Java 7 to avoid being compromised by active attacks. That alert came via F-Secure anti-malware analyst Timo Hirvonen, who reported finding an ...

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Two months after Java 6 update 10 was released, Sun has just released update 11. For many users the new version will automatically be detected and installed, but you can always get it from the Sun ...

Calling all computer users: Do you know if one or more Java browser plug-ins are installed on your Windows, Mac OS X or Linux system and, if so, what versions do you have? Hundreds of millions of PCs ...

Problems with Oracle's Java 7 runtime may require OS X users to switch back to Java 6, but currently there is no direct means of doing so. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

UPDATE, Thursday, Aug. 30, 4:16 p.m.: Oracle has issued a new version of Java that it says fixes the vulnerabilities described below. For more, see my new post here. Original post: Hackers have found ...