Oracle has released a critical patch update for its Java products including the Java Development Kit and the Java Runtime Environment. According to the security advisory the cumulative update fixes a total of 20 security related issues across all Java based products. Java users can verify their computer system’s Java version on this page. Affected [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Security, Windows

Just read over at Mike’s (German) blog that Oracle released the final version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 7.0 earlier today to the public. That’s five years after Java SE 6 has been released. The JRE is needed to execute Java applications on the local system and in the web browser. I use it [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

Critical Java vulnerabilities were discovered in the beginning of February which affected the Java Runtime Environment and Java Development Kit. The affected versions were JRE 6 Update 23 and earlier on all supported operating systems. Instead of releasing a security patch right away, Oracle decided to release a command line tool first to patch the [...]

Categories: Security

It feels like I’m patching computer systems all day long in the last two days. First the monthly Windows Update, then Adobe with its patches and now Oracle and Java. This is madness and unfortunately a necessary evil. Oracle has just released a security advisory that details a critical security vulnerability in the JDK and [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Security, Windows

Regular readers of Ghacks know that browser plugins have become one of the biggest security risks for today’s Internet users. Keeping the plugins up to date is therefor essential to protect the system from exploits targeting known vulnerabilities. Among the plugins that are exploited the most are Adobe plugins, and Java. Recent findings in Microsoft’s [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

Oracle has just released an update for their Java platform, that bumps the version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and the Java Development Kit (JDK) to 1.6 Update 22. The Update release notes list the full external version as 1.6.0_22-b04, and the external version as 6u22. It lists a total of 16 different bugs [...]

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Oracle has released an update to the Java SDK and Java Runtime Environment raising the version of both to 6 Update 21. The official download site over at the Java website lists Java 6 Update 20 as the latest version even though update 21 has been released, this is likely going to change in the [...]

Categories: Security, Software

Java Portable has been designed specifically for situations where Java support is needed but not necessarily guaranteed on the host system. The distribution is part of the Portable Apps collection and compatible with Java dependent applications that are offered on the site. The portable Java installer can be downloaded from the Portable Apps website. It [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Thr JRE, Java Runtime Environment, contains a Java Virtual Machine, class libraries and other files that are needed to execute Java programs on a computer system. It has been designed for end users systems as it does not contain tools to develop Java applications like the Java JDK. It basically boils down to this: If [...]

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