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SAP Bug Still Exposing Companies Six Years After Being Patched!
We are constantly reminded about keeping our software up to date, from something like Word to the auto-updates of Windows 10. Amongst all the features and tweaks we often get with these updates, the first and foremost reason for fixes and updates is often security, with each update fixing another problem…
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RuneScape Relaunched With New Game Engine
Many will remember playing RuneScape, the game being a popular favourite way back before large multiplayer online games flooded the video game market. From the village of Lumbridge to the battlegrounds of Castle Wars, players levelled and traded all within their browser for the past fifteen years, but that is all…
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Oracle Asks For $9.3 Billion in Copyright Trial Against Google
Google is known for many things, from the search engine that started it all to the chrome web browser that so many uses these days. One of the things Google is known for is the Android mobile operating system, something that could Oracle want a piece of in a copyright…
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JavaScript Projects Were Broken After Left-Pad Was Unpublished
Tuesday afternoon and you start running your brand new JavaScript for the website you’re working on. You’ve been working on it for days and have been enjoying it working only to find it breaks. The reason your project, among hundreds of JavaScript Projects, was broken for hours because someone unpublished…
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Two Year Old Java Vulnerability Reappeared Thanks to Broken Patch
Back in 2013, Oracle released a patch for a critical security flaw in Java. Now it has been found that this patch was ineffectual and easily bypassed, once again making PCs and servers running even the latest version of Java vulnerable to it. The tracking code for this flaw in the…
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Oracle is Killing Off Java
Outdated browser plugin Java is finally being pulled, Oracle has announced. Java will be slowly phased out, beginning with a deprecation of the plugin starting with JDK 9. The advent of HTML5 means that buggy and insecure browser plugins, such as Flash and Java, are no longer required, with Google…
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Oracle’s Java Code to Be Removed from Future Android Versions
Today Google confirmed that the next version of their Android Operating System, Android N, would not be making use of Oracle’s Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and instead they would be replaced by their OpenJDK equivalents in all future versions of Android. While Google states that this change will make…
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One Java With An Added PUP Please
Critical security updates to applications are essential to maintain a patched system from the many exploits which attempt to infiltrate ones PC. Certain software companies need patching more than others and this is no less evident with both Adobe Flash and Oracle Java, the aforementioned needs fixing every five minutes…
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Yahoo Trying to Trick Java Users into Switching Search Engines
Do you use Yahoo Search? No? Me neither. But Yahoo is hoping to change that via trickery. The internet giant has teamed up with Oracle to backdoor Yahoo Search as your default search engine when installing Java. The deal was announced by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Wednesday and will…
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Ask Toolbar Targetted by Microsoft as High Threat Malware
Microsoft looks to be serious about making their Windows platform more safe and secure after years of being derided as being malware prone. In its latest move, Microsoft has branded the notorious Ask Toolbar as a piece of malware. As many of you who might have to clean relatives and…
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New Google Chrome Update Will No Longer Support Java
Chrome Version 42; The answer to life, the universe and everything? Not for much longer as Google have deprecated NPAPI, NPAPI stands for Netscape Plug-in API. A feature of Chrome to allow extensions to interface with the local machine. This doesn’t come as a surprise though, Google started their efforts…
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Simda Botnet Taken Down After Affecting 777,000 PC’s Worldwide
Sidma has been around for the past 6 months, causing pain to PC owners across the world. It infected 128,000 computers each month – a phenomenal rate for a botnet. The bot changed into a new undetectable form every few hours; making it almost impossible to detect with standard antivirus…
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Latest Java Update Trolls Mac Users with Annoying Adware
Java is one of the most used platforms on all major operating system nowadays. It is even required by some websites to be able to load and display their applets, giving you a rich browsing experience. However, its latest update seems to want to dictate which search engine we are…
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Why do Android Phones Need So Much RAM?
A question that has haunted Apple and Android fans for years has now been answered. Why do iPhones get by on 1GB of RAM while most Android handsets need an extra 1 or 2GB? Well Glyn Williams on Quora thinks he has the answer. Apparently Android apps rely on Java which utilises a…
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Japanese Adult Websites Could Infect Your Computer with Malware
People visiting adult websites is nothing out of the common, having it be a normal occurrence from time to time. However, those of you attempting to visit a Japanese adult website should know that cyber criminals are attempting to infect your computer just by visiting the website. A report made…
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