The discovery of a serious software bug has simultaneously opened a variety of desktop computers to potential attack. The flaw has been found in Java, which works on a variety of computer operating ...

Fortify Software Inc. and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. The Java Open Review project (JOR) lets open-source projects ...

NASA scientists today announced they are releasing free software that will find ‘bugs,’ or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as ‘open source software.’ ...

Apple today patched 15 vulnerabilities in three versions of Java used by Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard, bringing the operating system up to par with fixes that Sun issued a month ago. Today’s Leopard ...

It’s no secret that Java has moved to the top of the target list for many attackers. It has all the ingredients they love: ubiquity, cross-platform support and, best of all, lots of vulnerabilities.

Oracle just scored points with the security community for rushing out an early patch for a critical security flaw in Java that was already being widely exploited by the cybercriminal underground. But ...

A powerful new exploit has been identified in the wild that could turn PCs running outdated versions of Java into bots for spam or DDoS attacks, or even loot them for sensitive information. As ...

Online attackers have wasted no time seizing on a critical vulnerability in Oracle's Java software framework that makes it possible to install malware on computers running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.

Some of the fixes for the Windows, Linux, and Solaris versions of Java Runtime Environment and Java Web Start were rated critical by outside researchers Sun patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows, ...

Oracle engineers were briefed on critical vulnerabilities in the Java software framework more than four months before the flaws were exploited in malware attacks that take complete control of end-user ...