The
Department of Homeland Security warned today that you should still disable Java soon after
Oracle released a patch for a hole in Java that enabled hackers to sneak into your computer to steal information or hook you up to a botnet. “DHS is skeptical because it’s highly likely yet another Java vulnerability is found soon, starting this all over again,” said
F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen in an email to VentureBeat. “The problem is the Java plugin in the browser. Remove the plugin from your daily browser. Then, if some site that you really need needs Java, use a secondary browser with the plugin enabled just for that site.”
