IMPORTANT: The article below was written in August 2012, in response to a security scare involving Java. Although that particular scare has now passed for users who have kept their Java installation ...

Now is the time to disable Java in your web browser, or even remove it from your system if that is practical. Why? The bad guys are hard at work trying to exploit a zero day vulnerability in the ...

To view our interactive tools properly, you need to be using a Java-enabled browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 3 or above, or Netscape v. 3 or above), preferably on a Windows 95 and higher ...

In January alone, two different Java vulnerabilities were attacked by widespread browser exploit kits. At least one of those Java flaws led to the recently disclosed network penetrations of Apple ...

Oracle has announced that the days of the Java browser plugin are numbered, with its deprecation set for the upcoming Java Development Kit 9 release and its removal slated for a future release.

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

For instructions on how to disable Java in Firefox, Chrome and Safari, click here.For instructions on disabling it in Internet Explorer, click here.The newly spreading exploit affects version 7 ...

For the few occasions where a person does need Java, such as accessing a business payroll site, they advise using a separate browser that runs Java. To determine whether the browsers you depend on ...

Oracle has announced that it is finally killing off its Java browser plugin. The company has stated that the technology will be removed from the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) in the near future.

Below are instructions for unplugging Java from whatever Web browser you may use to surf the Web. These instructions were originally posted as a how-to in response to this piece: Zero-Day Java ...

Ethan Nicholas was recently hired by Sun to work on his dream of a Java Browser Edition. Except they're calling it the Java Kernel now, and if initial experiments are any indication, the team will ...

Java users get another reminder to upgrade to current versions of the browser plug-in after a zero day targeting a previously patched Java 6 bug was found in the Neutrino Exploit Kit Unless you ...