The update now will prevent all versions of the Java Web plug-in before version 1.7.11.22 from running on the system (previously the limit was version 1.7.10.19).

Bit9 sifted its own data on more than a million end points to assemble the report. It found that, among those end points with Java installed, more than 80 percent are currently running Java 6. That ...

Removing all old versions of Java and running only the latest, patched versions is easier said than done. For one, new Java installs don’t necessarily uninstall the older versions automatically.

Security vendor Rapid 7 has set up a site that will detect the version of Java that is running in the user’s browser and tell her whether it contains the newly discovered Java vulnerability. The ...

Oracle, in making Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE) 7 the default runtime environment for Java this week, is emphasizing that older versions of Java be removed for security purposes.

Firefox, for example, has a blocked plugins list that includes Java plugin 7 update earlier than 44 and Java Plugin 6 updates earlier than 45. Google Chrome introduced a similar blocklist in 2011.

"We have successfully confirmed that a complete Java security sandbox bypass can be still gained under the recent version of Java 7 Update 11 (JRE version 1.7.0_11-b21)," Adam Gowdiak, CEO of ...

5. In the Java Control Panel, click on "General." 6. The first, or "About," line will allow you to view version information about Java. 7. Click on the "About…" button in that first line.

They're verifying which versions of Java are running, and then targeting the older versions if they're installed. A company might think they're doing the right thing by updating their Java ...