Another week, another security hole. At least update 11 adds confirmation 
dialog for non-signed code, which makes new holes harder to exploit. 
Perhaps Oracle should change their update policy from 4 months to 4 days 
instead. ;)

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/critical-java-vulnerabilies-confirmed-in-latest-version/

/Casper

On Monday, January 14, 2013 4:09:41 AM UTC+1, jddarcy wrote:
>
> Notification directly from Oracle on this matter: 
>
> https://blogs.oracle.com/security/entry/security_alert_for_cve_2013 
>
> -Joe 
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Ricky Clarkson 
> <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrime-and-hacking/21627/oracle-patches-java-7-security-flaw-update-11
>  
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Phil Swenson 
> > <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
>
> > wrote: 
> >> 
> >> What is it going to take to get oracle to just kill java in the 
> browser? 
> >> It's an unneeded/obsolete embarrassment. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Jan 11, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Naturally. It's the first time, over the last couple of JRE bugs, that 
> my 
> >> bank officially on their front page, is now issuing a warning against 
> >> running Java 7 (which is a bit of a problem, as using Java is pretty 
> much 
> >> mandatory with our contry's SSO solution). 
> >> 
> >> On Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:55:22 PM UTC+1, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> 
> wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> In any event, the exploit has now made it into the known exploit kits 
> >>>> Blackhole and NuclearPack, so a new wave of JVM security exploits now 
> seems 
> >>>> eminent: 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Hopefully you mean 'imminent' :-) 
> >>> 
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