In a sudden about-face, Sun has rushed out a Java update to fix a drive-by download vulnerability that exposed Windows users to in-the-wild malware attacks. The patch comes less than a week after Sun ...

Note that Oracle has a rolling 4-month patching cycle for Java: patches are released every two months with security patches occupying one two-month slot and bug fixes / enhancements the other slot.

Java is one of those OOPs based languages, along with Python and C++, that’s in demand right now. So, if you want to ride the bandwagon and use the language, you must download it on your system. Not ...

Mere hours after news broke that five new vulnerabilities had been found, Oracle on Monday announced the release of Java 7 Update 17 to address two separate vulnerabilities. The patch is being shipped ...