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Cisco: Java exploits behind 90 percent of security attacks

article published on 20 January, 2014

Cisco, in their 2014 Annual Security Report, blames Java for being far and away the leading cause of security exploits. In fact, "Java represented 91 percent of all Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) in 2013," says the report. This means Java exploits were the "final payload observed" in a huge majority of all attacks throughout the year. "I was surprised to see that the Java IOC number ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		21. January 2014 @ 12:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Not surprised! I have been a network engineer for 15 years and have always HATED Java. It's malicious by nature and should not be on ANYBODY'S COMPUTER unless you have to have it like when schools seem to constantly use that garbage program.

People ask me all the time "How do these bad things get in my computer?"

I answer them that blind computing and Java are the only reasons. Java is activated automatically every time someone clicks on any link. It drives the web and causes malware/spyware to infect PCs simply by surfing the web.

Simple as that. DO NOT INSTALL JAVA RUNTIME!!! DO NOT USE IE!
DO NOT HAVE YOUR BROWSER REMEMBER PASSWORDS AND FORMS

3 simple rules. How hard is that huh???
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tommyo54
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_ 		25. January 2014 @ 12:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Then what is the alternative (pertaining to Java)? Because some of the websites I regularly visit require Java. I am actually not too fond of Java because it slows down Internet Explorer but I need the damn thing... What to do??
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aldan
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_ 		25. January 2014 @ 15:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
dont mistake java for java script.is it in fact java that these websites require or java script.i always thought ie used activex not java.see if you can install the java script plugin for ie. not sure as i havent used ie in years and probably never will again.
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xboxdvl2
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_ 		25. January 2014 @ 16:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
years ago everything ran on java nowadays most run on flash anyway ,i don't see why heaps still use java.


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0ldskool
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_ 		27. January 2014 @ 21:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by xboxdvl2:
 years ago everything ran on java nowadays most run on flash anyway ,i don't see why heaps still use java.

I would argue the exact opposite. While its true that a large set of online plugins or games were developed in java a long time ago it never really stopped being an important component to have installed on a PC. Android programs are almost exclusively written in Java and many Windows or cross-platform applications are also written in java (just not usually obviously because their UI uses none standard java libraries).

Flash is a dead technology and the only reason people are still using it or developing with it is because they don't realize its dead. Even adobe (the current owners of flash technology) have been telling people to move away from flash and onto newer HTML5 friendly tech's. Adobe killed support for flash on android and it was never supported on iOS. Since mobile is taking over it only helps to speed up the transition away from flash.
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