Oracle says Java flaw will be fixed ‘shortly’

Oracle Corp. says it will soon fix a flaw in its Java software that caught the attention of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Oracle Corp. says it will soon fix a flaw in its Java software that caught the attention of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The Internet is a general service in the Philippines, benefiting nearly 30 million Filipinos for everything from looking for a place, reading news, shopping and connecting with others through social networks.

Tens of thousands of people around the world whose computers were infected with malware may lose their Internet access Monday after the expiry of a US government fix, security experts said.
With worldwide sales of smartphones expected to exceed 420 million units by the end of this year—accounting for almost 28 percent of the entire global mobile phone purchases—expect cases of malicious software infection and exploitation to also rise.
Google on Tuesday began warning some users of its popular Internet search service that their computers may be infected with a virus.
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft on Wednesday warned that hackers use mind tricks more often than software skills to get viruses into computers. Feedback from globally popular Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser indicated that one of every 14 programs downloaded turned out to be a malicious code, according to the US software titan. “Social-engineering attacks, like [...]