The vast majority of security vulnerabilities in open-source projects reside in indirect dependencies rather than directly and first-hand loaded components. "Aggregating the numbers from all ...

Certicom announced it earned FIPS 140-2 validation for the Java version of Security Builder GSE, certifying another module in its security solutions helping vendors sell into the government market.

Java versions 15, 16, 17, and 18 (and maybe some older versions) have a big problem, ECDSA signature verification is totally broken. The story is a prime example of the dangers of unintended ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

It’s time for another Java update — and it’s a relatively big one. Oracle is releasing fixes for 42 security bugs in its highly vulnerable Java programming language today. Thirty-nine of those bugs ...

JavaOne is back, baby! And by that, I mean, back in the Bay Area. It was part of a little trade show diaspora that saw Oracle OpenWorld, among others, decamping to Las Vegas, but it returned this week ...