Just an FYI for those not plugged into the tech community.
There is a fairly serious exploit for the current Java version (number 7), all patch levels, including fully current.
So, if you have Java 7 installed on your system, you should disable it in your web and email browsers.
The exploit works by using special html pages to run programs on your system. Either you visit a page that has the code (or has been hacked and had the code added) or you open an email with the same.
To disable it in Firefox or Thunderbird, you go to Tools > Add Ons > Plug Ins - find the one called Java Platform and disable it.
There's not a lot out there that still uses Java, and if you really must access a site with it that you know is clean, you can try going through Chrome, which whitelists plug-ins by site as opposed to universally.
Info at Ars Technica
^-.-^
There is a fairly serious exploit for the current Java version (number 7), all patch levels, including fully current.
So, if you have Java 7 installed on your system, you should disable it in your web and email browsers.
The exploit works by using special html pages to run programs on your system. Either you visit a page that has the code (or has been hacked and had the code added) or you open an email with the same.
To disable it in Firefox or Thunderbird, you go to Tools > Add Ons > Plug Ins - find the one called Java Platform and disable it.
There's not a lot out there that still uses Java, and if you really must access a site with it that you know is clean, you can try going through Chrome, which whitelists plug-ins by site as opposed to universally.
Info at Ars Technica
^-.-^
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