Friday, January 11, 2013

Apple Disables Java

http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2013/01/apple-disables-java-7-in-response-to.html

and

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/625617

Wow!  Apple outright disabled Java.  This was also something that DHS recommended, but to have a software vendor broadly disable it...that's crazy, but in a good way.  Java has always had it's issues, so maybe this will force them to take a deeper look into their security issues.