An update for Java Standard Edition 7 (SE7) - which was supposed to fix a high-profile critical vulnerability that left machines susceptible to remote exploits - has failed to solve all the issues ...

Oracle has released Java 7 Update 13 to address two vulnerabilities in its software, one of which was being exploited in the wild.

Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for Java on Tuesday.

So I inherited this bit of Java code and it has what I will call a Watchdog Timer.It is set for like 10 minutes and if nothing good happens in 10 minutes it runs some cleanup code.Now when ever ...