The first, from an unusually elaborate exploit kit called “Dragon Pack ... functionality to ask the visitor to run a malicious Java applet. On Dec. 29, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned ...

The GIFAR exploit works because two different programs ... but when the "image" actually reaches the client, it's opened as a Java applet and run. Simply viewing a GIFAR won't infect a system ...

(The exploit may affect Java 6 as well.) "A vulnerability in the Java Security Manager allows a Java applet to grant itself permission to execute arbitrary code," the alert said. "An attacker ...

The exploit reported by FireEye seems to target ... set your Java security settings to ‘High’ and do not execute any unknown Java applets outside of your organization.” ...

The hundreds of government, military and research organizations targeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word ...

The exploit for the first vulnerability was quickly ... is that Apple by default disabled Java applet support in Web browsers in its most recent Java security update. Starting with OS X 10.7 ...

The exploit’s breakout followed the addition ... When a browser encounters a Java applet, OS X asks the user for permission to download the Oracle software. People running the older Snow Leopard ...

Security researchers from FireEye, who found the new Java attacks last week, said that the Java exploit installs a remote ... inserted a malicious Java applet onto those sites that used a ...

but Java applets are a stupid idea, and we won't be touching them in this course". That has held true ever since. Even as I've used Java every day in my career, I've taken that advice to heart.

Hackers are distributing rogue email notifications about changes in Microsoft’s Services Agreement to trick people into visiting malicious pages that use a recently circulated Java exploit to ...

While signed applets do limit the effectiveness of some ... less attractive for attackers,” Gowdiak said. As for the Java 6 exploit, the fact that it has been introduced into an exploit kit ...

This would allow the hacker to create a Java applet that loads from a different Web site than the one the browser is accessing. The exploit would allow the hacker to access, but not change ...