Wednesday 27 March 2013
A new Websense report suggests that approximately 94 percent of endpoints that run Oracle's Java are vulnerable to at least one exploit, and are ignoring updates at our own peril.
Researchers found that the latest version of Java, version 1.7.17, is only in use by a dismal 5 percent of users, and many versions are months or years out of date -- just begging to be exploited.
The most widely detected version of Java currently in use is version 1.6.16. Over 75 percent of browsers are using Java versions that are at least 6 months old, whereas nearly two-thirds are a year out of date, and 50 percent of Java versions in use are over two years behind the times in respect to Java vulnerabilities.
