Oracle released Java SE 7 Update 4 this week, which finally gives Mac owners the means to receive critical Java security patches at the same time they're available for users of Windows and Linux ...

Apple just announced that it is joining Oracle’s OpenJDK project to open source the Java technology for Mac OS X. OpenJDK is a free and open source implementation of the Java programming language.

News that Oracle will now provide Mac users with Java updates at the same time as they are available for Windows and Linux, has been celebrated, not least because it comes in the wake of the Flashback ...

Ten months ago (October 2006), a member of Google's security team discovered and reported two code execution vulnerabilities in Sun's Java ICC (image) profile parsing code. Seven months later (May ...