In the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty, the technology expert in the time-traveling starship's crew, is invited to use an Apple Macintosh, the most usable computer of the 1980s.

Homeland Security says Java computer language has serious security flaws. Millions of computer users may be affected. No security patch currently available. The Department of Homeland Security is ...

Following Oracle’s move to contribute the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) standard to the Eclipse Foundation, the Java Community Process (JCP) will focus its efforts on developing the Java Standard ...

Security researchers are warning of a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Java, including the latest Java 7 update 10. The vulnerability can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute ...

WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Java software on their computers to avoid potential hacking attacks. The recommendation came in an ...

Both Java and Python contain similar security flaws that allow an attacker to bypass firewalls by injecting malicious commands inside FTP URLs. The problems arise from the way Java and Python (through ...

Instead of worrying about the security threat posed by Java, simply get rid of it. Chances are you won’t miss it. Here are steps you can take to kill Java from your PC. Some security problems are ...

I'm working on a Java app that runs off of a flash drive. It needs to be able to get a unique identifier for each computer it runs on. The next time it runs on the computer, it should be able to ...

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