Oracle Patches Java for McRat

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 6, 2013

t’s only March, but 2013 has not been a good year so far for Oracle Java security. On the negative side, Java has been repeatedly shamed and blamed for being at the root cause of big name exploits. On the positive side, Oracle is continuing to swim upstream issuing fixes as rapidly as it can.

SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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