Targeted attacks were up 42 percent in 2012, according to an analysis conducted by Symantec, and some of the attacks use known vulnerabilities -- including Java.

The latest Java security update repairs 50 vulnerabilities, the majority of which can be remotely targeted by attackers in the browser.

It’s time for another Java update — and it’s a relatively big one. Oracle is releasing fixes for 42 security bugs in its highly vulnerable Java programming language today. Thirty-nine of ...