Please disable Java in your browser now!
There, now we can continue - Six months ago a really nasty exploit was discovered in Java. This exploit will let an attacker escape Javas sandbox and execute any command on the users system with the same privileges as the user. This is bad, as in
rm -rf ~
As in really really bad! This exploit is cross platform as it can be written in pure Java. Sun fixed it in December and Apple still hasn’t updated their Java version in OS X, eventhough they updated Java back in February. Dear Apple, Please fix this nasty exploit as soon as possible - it’s getting embarrassing. Update: As of June 15th 2009 1 Apple has released a software update that fixes the remote exploit.
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Only 6 months late ↩︎
