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Java Update (hopefully) fixes recent 0-day vulnerability

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A new update for Java (Version 7, Update 11) was released today. This update is supposed to fix the serious 0-day vulnerability discovered last week. Anyone using Java 7 in a web browser should install this update immediately. Given the recent track record of Oracle/Sun (Java’s developer), it remains to be seen whether this update actually fixes the vulnerability. I will wait for Adam Gowdiak to weigh in before I’m certain one way or the other.

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Update 2013Jan17: An interesting post over at NetworkWorld reviews what’s being said about the state of Java’s vulnerability.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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