Java exploits appear to be increasing as attacks targeting Adobe Reader and Acrobat decline, according to a Cisco 3Q10 Global Threat Report, released Wednesday. Java exploits rose from 5 percent of ...

Cisco Systems says Java vulnerabilities are now exploited more often than holes in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader applications. The networking giant's 2010 Annual Security Report states that in January ...

Microsoft warned users about an "unprecedented wave of Java exploitation" in 2010, enabling hackers to use widespread Java vulnerabilities to launch malicious attacks. Thus far in 2010, Microsoft ...

The day it acknowledged company-owned Macs had been hacked using a “drive-by” Java exploit, Apple on Tuesday patched the Oracle software for older systems and released a malware detection tool. The ...

A new exploit for a previously unknown and unpatched Java vulnerability is being actively used by attackers to infect computers with malware, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. “We ...

Microsoft Silverlight vulnerabilities are increasingly being exploited in drive-by download attacks to infect computers with malware, especially through malicious ads. Attackers have been adding ...

Oracle added a feature in Java that lets companies control what specific Java applets are allowed to run on their endpoint computers, which could help them better manage Java security risks. The new ...