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<title>Forums: who's to blame, Safari or Java? </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/19/whos.to.blame.safari.or.java/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1206/FR4.jpg ' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Yesterday in the MacNN forums, "cgc" was trying to figure out why they were having problems with certain websites after updating Safari and Java. Also yesterday, Professional Poster "badidea" was having a problem with the cursor remaining on screen while the iTunes visualizer is playing....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple adds site-specific controls to Java, updates Safari</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/16/restores.more.user.control.to.java.web.plug.in/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/java.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple on Tuesday updated both Java and its web browser Safari for users of OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and higher. The updates now allow users to enable the Java web plug-in on a site-by-site basis, as opposed to the "active" or "inactive" options it had previously. Following a spate of serious issues, Apple forcibly disabled the Java plug-in because of malicious, in-use threats -- though users cou...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Briefly: older Java blocked, Draftcode for iPad, iSkin slims</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/07/apple.now.blocking.older.versions.of.java.6.7/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362639029_Briefly-PHP-slimcase.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Due to multiple and in-use vulnerabilities that are actively affecting user systems, Apple has taken the step of blocking the web plug-ins for all older versions of Java 6 and 7. Browsers on Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion that don't include their own built-in versions of the Java plug-in must be updated to the current version, which is update 17 for Java SE 7 and update 43 for Java SE 6. Ja...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oracle, Apple update Java to fix newly-discovered exploits</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn4.macnn.com/news/1208/Oracle-Java-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Oracle has released a new version of Java 7, Update 17.  The patch is being released early, Oracle says, to cope with a security hole that is being "actively exploited by attackers to maliciously install the McRat executable onto unsuspecting usersí machines."  The vulnerability was made public late last week.  It also fixes a second, previously undocumented flaw, believed to be likewise connect...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Researchers discover new, in-use vulnerability in Java</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn4.macnn.com/news/1208/Oracle-Java-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A new vulnerability has been discovered in the latest versions of Java, v1.6 Update 41 and v1.7 Update 15, say researchers from security firms FireEye and Kaspersky Lab.  Critically the bug is already being exploited in order to download and install a remote access tool, "McRAT," on targeted computers.  The malware is being spread through a JPG file hosted on a Japanese website....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oracle updates Java again to close serious security flaws</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1208/Oracle-Java-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Oracle has once again released an updated version of Java SE 7 in order to combat serious vulnerabilities that have resulted in malware attacks on both Macs and Windows PCs. The new version, Update 15, comes less than three weeks after the previous patch, and follows an Apple-issued update to Java SE 6 in the wake of hacker attacks against Apple's own employees' work Macs. The new update is said b...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple issues promised post-attack Java update</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn4.macnn.com/news/1204/Oracle-Java-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has released a promised Java update in the wake of an attack by Chinese hackers.  The patch is available in two versions, for Lion/Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard.   In both cases the code should bring Java SE 6 up to v1.6.0_41....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Briefly: iPad mini ship times, OS X bug, Java 10.6 update</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/04/shipping.for.ipad.mini.orders.drops.to.1.3.days/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1359956714_Apple-Java-OSX-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Roughly ten days after it last updated iPad mini ship times, Apple has dropped the wait again -- indicating that availability is improving. While still not achieving what CEO Tim Cook calls "supply/demand balance" (which generally translates into a shipping status of "in stock" or available for immediate shipping), the delay has now dropped to 1-3 business days in the US and Canadian stores, d...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oracle issues Java 7 Update 13 early to fix vulnerabilities</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1208/Oracle-Java-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Oracle has released Java 7 Update 13.  In an announcement, Oracle explains that the update was originally slated to go live February 19th, but that it was pushed out early because of "active exploitation in the wild of one of the vulnerabilities affecting the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in desktop browsers."  In all the code fixes 50 security holes; 44 of these are said to have been browser-onl...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Stealth OS X update once again blocks use of Java</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/31/normal.use.waiting.on.oracle.update/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1208/Oracle-Java-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is once again blocking the use of the Java web plug-in in OS X, reports say. The company has issued a silent update to OS X's anti-malware system which sets the minimum version of Java beyond the current Mac release, Java 7 Update 11. As a consequence, Java can't be used in web browsers on Macs until Oracle issues its next patch. The step may back (or be based on) views that Java continues t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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