Apple has released Java for OS X 2013-005, which “delivers improved security, reliability, and compatibility for Java SE 6”. The update is available in the Mac App Store. Of note, the updates ...

I wrote a pair of apps, one a server and one a client, and they were free-standing java programs. They work seamlessly, only now we want to run the client from behind a firewall, and it's not working.

The out-of-band patch addresses the recently discovered critical vulnerability in Oracle's Java 7, Oracle said in its security advisory released Jan. 13. An attacker would exploit the latest flaw by ...