The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team says no one should use Java until Oracle fixes a hole that permits attackers to jump inside your computer and steal information.
“We estimate that about 100 million computer users are now in immediate danger of getting exploited. Given the current circumstances – wide availability of the exploit code and no fix from Oracle scheduled for the near future – disabling the Java feature in the browser is the wisest choice,” Bitdefender senior e-threat analyst Bogdan Botezatu told VentureBeat in an email.
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