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Java Patch May Be Just a Finger in the Dam


Java Patch May Be Just a Finger in the Dam

Oracle acted swiftly last week to close a zero-day vulnerability in its Java technology, but given Java's track record, that patch is just one hit in a long game of wackamole played with hackers.
A number of security companies discovered the vulnerability over the weekend of Aug. 25. They noticed that a popular and notorious root kit, Blackhole, was being upgraded by its malevolent authors to exploit the Java flaw that hadn't appeared on the radar of malware fighters before.
The vulnerability was so severe that many security firms recommended turning off Java entirely.
Oracle quickly released an out-of-cycle patch for the problem, a rarity by the company. "We've tested the patch and it works," Chris Astacio, manager of security research at Websense told TechNewsWorld. "It doesn't allow exploitation."
Attacks on Java are nothing new, he noted. "Java has been the No. 1 vector of attack for exploit kits," he said. "Your mass attacks are most of the time going to use Java vulnerabilities to try and drop malware on client machines."
For that reason, some security experts recommend turning off Java if you don't use it. "If you have no purpose for Java, then absolutely remove it from your computer because there have been multiple instances with Java where there have been zero days in the past," Astacio explained.

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