announced by the FTC on Monday, Oracle is required to notify customers on Twitter or Facebook on how to remove the older software and to assist those who are updating their Java software remove ...

Oracle's Java software is known for creating its share ... they'll think twice about sloppy uninstalls that leave insecure code behind -- the FTC may not be so gentle the next time around.

Security issues have long bedeviled users of Oracle’s Java SE ... actually provide security for the software,” said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.

The FTC complaint said Oracle’s Java Platform, Standard Edition software (Java SE) deceived customers about how secure it was, leaving some older, vulnerability-filled versions of the software ...

Oracle's Java plug-in is used to power games ... Mr Ferguson added that the ruling sent out a message to other software providers that the FTC was concerned about update procedures and might ...

The FTC highlighted ... availability of exploit code and scanning capabilities to be a real and present danger to their environments,” it added. “Due to the many software and services ...

Oracle, one of the nation's largest tech companies, is settling federal charges that it misled consumers about the security of its software ... the FTC said. When Oracle bought Java in 2010 ...

The case involves widely used software called Java, which comes pre-installed on many PCs and helps run web-based programs such as online calculators, games and chatrooms. The FTC says Oracle knew ...

On December 9, when the Apache Software Foundation disclosed a massive vulnerability in Log4j, its Java logging library ... and other irreversible harms,” the FTC wrote.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has expressed concern over lack of manufacturer commitment to software updates for ... it relies on a rolling key code – and that function in turn relies ...

so it included in the Android operating system about 11,500 lines of code from Java SE, a platform that allows developers to write programs in Java that can run on various devices. Some aspects of the ...

"By failing to inform consumers that the Java SE update process did not remove all prior iterations of the software," the FTC stated in its complaint, "Oracle left some consumers vulnerable to a ...