Oracle Settles With FTC Over Java Security Updates | Linux Today

Oracle Settles With FTC Over Java Security Updates

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 23, 2015

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 update mechanism wasn’t actually keeping users secure as it left older versions of Java on the user’s system.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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