{"id":20270,"date":"2013-01-10T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=20270"},"modified":"2013-01-10T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:37:11","slug":"security-issue-requires-disabling-of-java-in-internet-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/01\/security-issue-requires-disabling-of-java-in-internet-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"Security issue requires disabling of Java in Internet browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Internet users are asked to disable the Java plug-in in their web browsers after a critical security vulnerability was discovered Thursday. The flaw affects all versions of Oracle\u2019s Java 7 (version 1.7) up to update 10 on all operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the following links for instructions to disable Java:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/24667\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Internet Explorer 9<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/24665\" target=\"_blank\">Google Chrome<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/24666\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/24664\" target=\"_blank\">Safari<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instructions and futher information are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kb.cert.org\/vuls\/id\/625617\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kb.cert.org\/vuls\/id\/625617<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Users of the Java JDK should remove Java 1.7 from their systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Mac users:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Java runtime is not installed on Mac OS X 10.7.x and Mac OS X 10.8.x by default. If you have installed Java 7 on your computer and wish to remove it, please delete the file \/Macintosh HD\/Library\/Java\/JavaVirtualMachines\/1.7.0.jdk.<\/p>\n<p>For more complete instructions on how to remove Java see this document on Oracle&#8217;s site (<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/javase\/7\/docs\/webnotes\/install\/mac\/mac-jdk.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/javase\/7\/docs\/webnotes\/install\/mac\/mac-jdk.html<\/a>) and see the bottom section entitled &#8220;Uninstalling the JDK.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Internet users are asked to disable the Java plug-in in their web browsers after a critical security vulnerability was discovered Thursday. The flaw affects all versions of Oracle\u2019s Java 7 (version 1.7) up to update 10 on all operating systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[534,741],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20273,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions\/20273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}