Security Manager Removed (JEP 486) Java permanently disables the Security Manager, a feature originally designed to restrict permissions for remotely loaded code.

The demo shows how to bypass Navigator’s Java Security Manager, which is supposed to prevent Java applets from reading local files.

What is the Java Security Manager? Java is known as a secure language for development because the JVM carefully controls what an application can do to the local host system. But as normally configured ...

Following the introduction of JEP-411 to deprecate Java’s SecurityManager, several projects have spoken up to discuss the impact and expected outcome of this change and how it is implemented in ...

The security of Oracle's Java software framework, installed on some three billion devices worldwide, is taking a turn for the worse, thanks to an uptick in attacks targeting vulnerabilities that ...

It's well known that Java platform applications are safe due to its security features. The security policy prevents any Java application from writing to files, creating network connections or ...

Bit9 released a report last week underscoring the ongoing security risk to the enterprise posed by outdated versions of Java still up and running on company machines.