Microsoft announced yesterday that it will soon roll out an Internet Explorer update that will automatically block old, insecure ActiveX controls. Dubbed out-of-date ActiveX control blocking, the ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

To view our interactive tools properly, you need to be using a Java-enabled browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 3 or above, or Netscape v. 3 or above), preferably on a Windows 95 and higher ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

Now is the time to disable Java in your web browser, or even remove it from your system if that is practical. Why? The bad guys are hard at work trying to exploit a zero day vulnerability in the ...

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate the ...

This month's Patch Tuesday update for Internet Explorer will include a new feature: it will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. More specifically, it will block out-of-date versions of the Java plugin ...