|Elflocko| Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [b] [url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/27/disable_java_to_block_exploit/"]Disable Java NOW, users told, as 0-day exploit hits web[/url][/b] Bad stuff, folks. Cross-platform and cross-browser, which means it can exploit any OS using any browser. At a minimum you should disable Java support in your browser.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Lucid| Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Awww man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted August 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Seriously, this is butt-puckeringly bad from an IT security standpoint and exacerbated by Larry "Will someone [b]please[/b] kick me in the balls?" Ellison and his idiotic quarterly patching\update schedule. What a fuckbag. Like his attempt to kill MySQL wasn't bad enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sois Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 java sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PutWittyNameHere Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='sois' timestamp='1346212056' post='1152253'] java sucks [/quote] Yuuuup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 I seem to remember uninstalling java being damn near impossible on Macs. Has that changed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Ah Oracle .... cant seem to not screw up anything that isnt your database can you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalBacker Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Firefox is all I use, I just went to the add ons and disabled the two Java things, should I be good? I think it's the older version that shouldn't be affected, 1.6. Thanks. [img]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5684/javafirefox.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted August 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='BengalBacker' timestamp='1346263161' post='1152432'] Firefox is all I use, I just went to the add ons and disabled the two Java things, should I be good? I think it's the older version that shouldn't be affected, 1.6. Thanks. [img]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5684/javafirefox.jpg[/img] [/quote] Yeah, that's good. Also check IE and make sure that it doesn't have any Java plugins lurking about... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalBacker Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Done, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluhartz Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 no java on anything I have MAc or PC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValleyBengal Posted August 30, 2012 Report Share Posted August 30, 2012 Problem is at work all our web based interface run through java. Talk about catch 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted August 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2012 [quote name='ValleyBengal' timestamp='1346354343' post='1152825'] Problem is at work all our web based interface run through java. Talk about catch 22 [/quote] I've got a lot of those interfaces as well (Shits pants) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 im surprised how many sites use java...like every bill pay site i used today.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 My understanding is that: 1. This only effects 1.7 2. Mac's don't have 1.7 unless you went out of your way to manually upgrade (everything else is still 1.6) 3. Oracle released a Java update to address this issue yesterday. Is this correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincyInDC Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 If it doesn't pay for Larry Ellison's jet fuel, Oracle really doesn't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted August 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 [quote name='mongo' timestamp='1346423614' post='1153293'] My understanding is that: 1. This only effects 1.7 2. Mac's don't have 1.7 unless you went out of your way to manually upgrade (everything else is still 1.6) 3. Oracle released a Java update to address this issue yesterday. Is this correct? [/quote] Correct. The issue with #1 is that it would not be hard to engineer the exploit to affect 1.6 and below as well. I'm sitting here looking at an enterprise with 50+ Java interfaces for a myriad of applications. [quote][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If it doesn't pay for Larry Ellison's jet fuel, Oracle really doesn't care.[/font][/color][/quote] Also very true... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 Ok so what's the deal with this? I have disabled the plugins, I keep getting a message to update Java on the comps though - should we uninstall the whole program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 apple just released a security update for java...mentioning security risk, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted September 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 [quote name='Cat' timestamp='1347549980' post='1157941'] Ok so what's the deal with this? I have disabled the plugins, I keep getting a message to update Java on the comps though - should we uninstall the whole program? [/quote] Oracle released a fix for Java 1.7, but that was rife with security holes as well. Then they released another. If you're going to keep Java, then by all means run the update. However, if you don't have a need for it, I'd get rid of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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