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There’s no denying the popularity of Java, as evidenced by its ubiquity on home and work systems worldwide. But it’s easy for computers — both in homes and at organizations — to have multiple versions ...

Mozilla has blacklisted unpatched versions of the Java plug-in from Firefox on Windows in order to protect its users from attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities in those versions. Mozilla can add ...

At a time when Apple, Mozilla and other tech giants are taking steps to prevent users from browsing the Web with outdated versions of Java, Yahoo! is pushing many of its users in the other direction: ...

Following a number of reports of new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java browser plug-in, Oracle has today released an emergency update to Java 7 as Apple updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_43. Today ...

Maybe you wanted to buy Minecraft for yourself or your kids, but quickly found yourself asking the same question over and ...

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 ...

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You may be tempted to keep various versions of Java running on your systems, but doing so leaves you exposed to security threats There’s no denying the popularity ...