Applets may no longer be in vogue, but opinions vary whether Oracle's Java Web Start is a viable alternative Oracle’s plan to dump its Java browser plug-in came as no surprise to two ISVs in the Java ...

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate the ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

News that Oracle Corp. plans to deprecate the Java browser plug-in in JDK 9 prompted a rousing chorus of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from the Internet last week. But the news came as no surprise. A ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

Following up on the news that Apple experienced a recent attack by hackers who infected some Macs with malicious software, Apple says they know how they did it. In a statement released to All Things D ...

Good news from the world of online security: Oracle, developer of the Java plugin that has been making browsers insecure since 1995, has finally announced that it’s sending it six feet under. The Java ...

Application security tools provider Waratek has released a new version of its AppSecurity for Java platform that automatically modernizes the security capabilities of older Java apps with a simple ...