Department of Homeland Security Urges Users to disable JAVA in Browsers

1/12/13 The (JAVA) issue is so large that the Computer Emergency Readiness Team at the Department of Homeland Security has urged users to disable Java. The governmental organization says in a release that the vulnerability "is being actively exploited" and that "exploit code is publicly available." US-CERT recommends that Java be disabled in the browser until an update is pushed out by Oracle.

http%3A//www.theverge.com/2013/1/12/3867332/department-of-homeland-security-disable-java



• It's easy to disable JAVA temporarily in browsers. (See Link)

  http%3A//gizmodo.com/5975475/how-to-disable-java-in-your-browser

• IS IT SAFE YET???

  Dustin%20Hoffman

• Yes, I would like to know if this has been fixed. You can't use the Internet without Java.

• R3, that's not true these days. Not that many sites use java in the browser any more. It's getting rarer and rarer. A lot of sites use javascript but, despite the name, that's not actually anything to do with java or effected by this security announcement.

• Part of the problem has been fixed, but not all of the security holes have been addressed. Security experts still advise users to disable JAVA (not javascript) in their browsers. "According to Reuters, the security firm Kaspersky Lab estimates that Java was used in 50 percent of all attacks in which hackers broke into computers by exploiting software bugs."

  http%3A//www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/14/java_zero_day_exploit_don_t_patch_just_disable_java_in_your_browser.html

• Okay, but when will they fix it?

• All I know is that Datalounge had been freezing up on me for weeks--and now that I disabled it I'm having no problems.

• I dont have Java on my Windows 7 PC. And it works as good as new. There are only a few sites that require it. Personally I think it slows down computers.

• Now what?

• It's a trick.