Facebook on Friday announced its systems were compromised last month as part of a sophisticated attack exploiting a Java vulnerability. Although the investigation is still ongoing, the company says it ...

Disabling Java in OS X requires doing so for each user account; however, even terminal commands for doing this may be a bit impractical to use as a substitute. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Another factor that has made the Mac vulnerable to malware like Flashback was the fact that Apple’s versions of Java — it has traditionally created its own plugins rather than rely directly on Oracle ...

Oracle has announced that it will be releasing and updating Java for OS X direct to users, avoiding the kind of delay in patching critical vulnerabilities that may have led to the Flashback malware ...

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Apple's Mac OS X is vulnerable to a security flaw in Java that was originally publically disclosed almost six months ago, a security researcher has warned. The flaw affects a number of platforms ...