Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

It’s probably safe to turn your Mac on again. Just a day after reports spread about a Java-based Trojan horse that could install itself on your Mac without ...

Apple supports old version Because the transition to Java 1.4.1 represents an architectural change to the underlying Java implementation on Mac OS X, some technologies built on Java 1.3.1 will not ...

Apple has finally released a Java for Mac update to fix multiple security flaws that were patched upstream more than six months ago. The fix comes three weeks after developers released ...

The Apple [AAPL] critics are dancing their dance once again today following news of a Java-based malware attack on Macs. But, given Java is the bad boy in the room, shouldn’t critics and Kool-Aid ...

If you still use Java on your Mac, these security fixes are considered critical. I think the author here is missing a major point: Oracle is not issuing security fixes to Mac users. The key difference ...

Apple today patched 15 vulnerabilities in three versions of Java used by Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard, bringing the operating system up to par with fixes that Sun issued a month ago. Today’s Leopard ...

The day it acknowledged company-owned Macs had been hacked using a “drive-by” Java exploit, Apple on Tuesday patched the Oracle software for older systems and released a malware detection tool. The ...