Given the recent hacks at Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, it's time for drastic action: removing or disabling Java on your Mac. Rich Mogull explains why and how.

Java isn’t good for your for your computer’s health right now. It can mess it up pretty bad. Bad enough that the Department of Homeland Security is warning us all to turn it off. OK, but how ...

Q: Recently the Denver Post had articles telling computer users to disable UPnP and Java because of hackers using them to gain control of a person’s computer, but didn’t tell us how to do it.

Java used to be deeply embedded in OS X, but in recent versions of the OS it's an optional install. Here is how to check to see if it is installed, and how to disable or remove it.

The unpatched Java vulnerability reported last week could be exploited by malware to infect your system, although no such infections have been discovered to date.

The weekly -- sometimes daily -- security scares that occur with Java may remind you of the old whack-a-mole arcade game. Here's how to stay safe.

With Java corralled into a small corner of the network but still accessible, he recommends that companies not just disable Java in their employees' browsers, but rather wipe it from their machines ...

With a new attack that targets a security vulnerability in Oracle's Java spreading through the hacker underground and no available fix in sight, it may be time for users to deal with the plugin's ...

People, it's time to disable Java on all your computer Web browsers, at least temporarily.

Security researchers are warning of a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Java, including the latest Java 7 update 10. The vulnerability can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to ...