As a web plugin, Oracle’s aging code deployment platform has practically been a revolving door for widespread malware attacks recently, and for years the general consensus has often been that its ...

Headlines about Adobe Flash zero-day exploits and calls for the execution of Adobe Flash dominated headlines over the past week or so in the wake of the Hacking Team hack. Meanwhile, Oracle pushed out ...

The last time hackers found a hole in Java’s browser plugin so bad that it sparked a warning from Homeland Security—which was less than five months ago, mind you—I wrote that you should “probably ...

The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...

A great many Java developers considered Microsoft’s Visual J++ to be the most productive Java IDE (integrated development environment) on the market. The settlement of a lawsuit brought by Sun ...

In Chicago, it’s the Cubs or the White Sox. In underwear, it’s boxers or briefs. In Web services platforms, it’s Java or Microsoft Windows. When Microsoft launched its .Net program, the personal ...