Apple has released a security update to plug a number of holes that allowed malicious software to run on a user's Mac outside of the Java sandbox. The Tuesday update for OS X Lion and Mac OS X 10.6 is ...

Apple on Tuesday released two Java updates for OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard which mimic the functionality of a recent Safari update that disables the automatic execution of Java applets.

Earlier this week a new and very serious vulnerability was discovered by security researchers in the Java platform that is installed into millions computers worldwide. This left users running Java on ...