Java
Yet another unpatched security hole found in Java
Just last week you were congratulating yourself for patching your computer against a Java security hole.
Now another zero-day unpatched vulnerability has been found in Oracle's widely used software.
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Join Chet and Duck as they discuss what we can learn from recent security news in this quarter-hour podcast.
Oracle and Apple ship critical Java updates - get yours today!
The security-beleaguered Java ecosystem usually gets updates just once every four months, in February, June and October.
But this year, Oracle has adapted that schedule a number of times, and this is one of them...
PWN2OWN results Day Two - Adobe Reader and Flash owned, Java felled yet again
PWN2OWN 2013 finished off today.
A second scheduled attack on IE 10 didn't happen, so IE 10 didn't get owned again, but Flash and Reader fell once each, and Java was exploited for the fourth time in two days...
PWN2OWN results Day One - Java, Chrome, IE 10 and Firefox owned
Of the Big Four browsers, only Apple's Safari has so far survived the onslaught of the browser-breakers at PWN2OWN 2013.
Java fell three times today; Adobe's Flash and Reader meet their attackers tomorrow...
Oracle ships out-of-band Java fix, Apple follows suit
Oracle recently published an emergency update for Java, and Apple quickly followed suit for the version of Java it still officially supports.
Paul Ducklin tries to guess where Oracle's Java patch cycle will end up...
Researchers claim to have found more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java
A security research team that has alerted Oracle to a series of security flaws in Java in the past, says that it has uncovered new zero-day vulnerabilities in the software.
Microsoft admits it was also hit by hackers, malware infects their Mac business unit
Microsoft joins Facebook and Apple in the list of big companies who have suffered at the hands of malware-bearing hackers.
Apple patches the Java hole its own developers fell into - eventually
Shortly after admitting that its own techies got infected thanks to a Java hole, Apple has pushed out a Java update for the rest of us.
Apple, with this most recent update, seems to have washed its hands permanently of browser-based Java. Paul Ducklin explains...
Apple's own Macs bitten by Java-based malware attack
Apple released a statement today acknowledging that they were victims of the same attackers that Facebook talked about last week. A zero-day Java vulnerability infected Apple Mac developers through a drive-by attack.
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Facebook owns up - admits network breached, blames "Java in the browser"
In The Social Network, the movie version of Zuckerberg could shout, "WE NEVER CRASH!"
I bet the real-life Zuckerberg wishes he could say, "We never get hacked..."
Oracle on Java - we *will* have Patch Tuesday on 19 Feb 2013 after all
Oracle brought forward its February Patch Tuesday to provide an accelerated fix for some in-the-wild exploits.
But that meant leaving other less vital stuff out, so the pre-empted Patch Tuesday will happen after all, on 19 Feb 2013. Be there!
Adobe patches Flash - heads off in-the-wild attacks against Windows and Apple users
It's not Tuesday...
Nevertheless, Adobe's Flash Player has been upgraded to patch against two in-the-wild exploits against Windows and Apple users.
Another Java update! Oracle brings Patch Tuesday forward to close in-the-wild hole...
"Yet another Java update! Get it while it's hot."
This update was planned for 19 Feb 2013.
But Oracle brought it forward, citing the "active exploitation 'in the wild' of one of the vulnerabilities affecting...desktop browsers".
Apple (again) washes its hands of the Java mess
Apple's thrown in the towel on the Java mess and has, for the second time in two weeks, blocked all versions of Java on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and later.










