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Despite the significant Java security improvements made by Oracle during the past six months, Java vulnerabilities continue to represent a major security risk for organizations because most of them ...

public class Hello { public static void main (String [] args) { StringBuffer greeting = new StringBuffer ("hello, "); StringBuffer who = new StringBuffer (args [0 ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Occasionally, your business may need to access a website application that requires you to install an older version of the Java application. Java's developer, Oracle ...

Bit9 released a report last week underscoring the ongoing security risk to the enterprise posed by outdated versions of Java still up and running on company machines -- versions of the platform with ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

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 ...

At a time when Apple, Mozilla and other tech giants are taking steps to prevent users from browsing the Web with outdated versions of Java, Yahoo!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

While we’re on the subject of improving Firefox performance (see yesterday’s post on clearing the Downloads list), let’s talk about old, outdated Java Consoles. Java, of course, is the programming ...

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 ...