Oracle has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over charges related to Java Software updates and security. The problem that the FTC had with Oracle’s Java updates is that the ...

Ahh, Java security, what a nightmare. The installers leaving behind old versions is only half of the problem. Folks in IT can attest to the other half being that the developers of Java at Sun ...

Oracle will be required to provide users with a mechanism to uninstall older and vulnerable versions of Java, following a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission ...

Oracle has settled complaints with the Federal Trade Commission over security issues with its Java Platform, a move security experts said should herald more full-disclosure initiatives from software ...

Oracle received a public slap on the wrist from the US Federal Trade Commission over Java SE, the desktop runtime for Java. The FTC announced today that it had reached a settlement with Oracle ...

Security issues have long bedeviled users of Oracle’s Java SE, and on Monday the FTC’s efforts to address the problem finally came to fruition. Oracle has agreed to settle charges that it deceived ...

Oracle promises to give customers tools that easily uninstall insecure older versions of Java SE that may still lurk as vulnerabilities within Web browsers. That promise comes in a consent decree with ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has given final approval to the settlement of its complaint against Oracle Corp., which alleged the company deceived consumers by not informing them that its ...

Oracle's Java software is known for creating its share of headaches, but security is arguably the biggest. For one thing, upgrading to the latest version of Java Standard Edition didn't always remove ...