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Post by geofflambert »
ORIGINAL: wdolson
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
The travel advisory still holds. There are still Japanese soldiers hiding out in the jungle who think the war is still on.
Somehow 90 year old soldiers who have been living off the land for nearly 70 years with 70 year old weapons don't really scare me too much.
Bill
Not being tech savvy, I don't know if this applies, but I just had my yahoo.com account (free) hacked; I use this account for my Firefox homepage. Fortunately I have not used this site for email in years and did not have any contacts saved, but the hackers did access my sent file and spammed those addresses. I've changed all my passwords and swept this account clean. Are there any other step I should take?ORIGINAL: msieving1
ORIGINAL: Icedawg
Has anyone else heard about this? The feds are warning Americans to disable Java as it supposedly has lots of security issues related to identity theft. Is this a matter of the feds having some axe to grind with Oracle, or something to do with keeping the population in fear, or is there a serious threat of being hacked?
As far as I know, I only need Java for Tracker. However, since AE is my life (okay, I'm exaggerating a bit), I don't want to disable it if not absolutely necessary.
Can anyone enlighten me here?
Apparently, the DHS warning applies to Java in web browsers, not stand-alone Java applications.
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
Running a Java App is ok. The problem is in the Java Update program, which is used to open a path into your machine. It's a VERY insidious little loop. As long as you don't auto update, but rather go to the Oracle website & update, you should be fine. The problem is that Oracle sets up a back door in Java to advise on updates, and then sets a change in your Registry to allow it. This allows the hacker with the know-how to back end any machine running it.
There are two things about this that concern me.
1) This auto-update exploit, isn't that analagous to the old IE vulnerability? If so, how could they (the Java folks) possibly NOT foresee this?
2) Why are we learning about this from Homeland Security? [X(][X(]
ORIGINAL: jetjockey
Not being tech savvy, I don't know if this applies, but I just had my yahoo.com account (free) hacked; I use this account for my Firefox homepage. Fortunately I have not used this site for email in years and did not have any contacts saved, but the hackers did access my sent file and spammed those addresses. I've changed all my passwords and swept this account clean. Are there any other step I should take?ORIGINAL: msieving1
ORIGINAL: Icedawg
Has anyone else heard about this? The feds are warning Americans to disable Java as it supposedly has lots of security issues related to identity theft. Is this a matter of the feds having some axe to grind with Oracle, or something to do with keeping the population in fear, or is there a serious threat of being hacked?
As far as I know, I only need Java for Tracker. However, since AE is my life (okay, I'm exaggerating a bit), I don't want to disable it if not absolutely necessary.
Can anyone enlighten me here?
Apparently, the DHS warning applies to Java in web browsers, not stand-alone Java applications.
ORIGINAL: crsutton
If you have Norton you should be fine. They just sent an email confirming that they have protection now for the holes in Java. You really can't live without Java.
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