Microsoft announced that it will block older ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer, starting with Java. Next week’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletins will not only bring nine new security ...

Java is a security headache, not just for users and Oracle, its provider, but also for other software companies that have to deal with it, as well. Microsoft has taken steps to address this problem by ...

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An unpatched hole in the Java runtime environment was found by researchers at Security Explorations recently. This has prompted many users to disable Java until a patch is released by Oracle. Although ...

The website belonging to non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders is the latest to be hit by attacks that use the recently patched Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities to ...

This month's Patch Tuesday update for Internet Explorer will include a new feature: it will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. More specifically, it will block out-of-date versions of the Java plugin ...

U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to include a Java Runtime Environment provided by Sun Microsystems in new copies of Windows XP and Internet Explorer within 120 days.