On Thursday, the world learned that attackers were breaking into computers using a previously undocumented security hole in Java, a program that is installed on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. This post aimsThat's the view of Bogdan Botezatu, a senior e-threat analyst with Bitdefender, a Romanian-based maker of antivirus software, who estimates that as many as 100 million PCs are vulnerable to hacker attack because of the latest Java defect discoveredImmediately, I tried to figure out how to disable Java, starting with the Java website where, shockingly there was no mention of the Homeland Security warning or a vulnerability problem or the fact my computing life was in peril. Oracle owns Java. So IOracle has confirmed the most recent Java 7 vulnerability and announced plans to issue a patch. A date was not given.I ran around the house this morning making sure the Java plugin was turned off in all our web browsers on all our computers. Why was I so panicked? Because the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning late this
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