Adobe has been getting a lot of negative press over the last few weeks on the back of various zero-day exploits being discovered: some say that Java SE7 is likely to be pulled. This article highlights a growing problem about zero-day exploits found in old software series: take Adobe Flash for instance. This week Oracle released a series of security patches for its current Java SE8 software. Oracle no longer support Adobe Flash - so if your enterprise is still running SE7 then none of the recent patches can be downloaded automatically. "So Enterprises running Java SE 7 applications -- which is virtually every large enterprise today -- cannot automatically download and apply these important security fixes."
Adobe has been getting a lot of negative press over the last few weeks on the back of various zero-day exploits being discovered: some say that Adobe Flash is likely to be pulled. This article highlights a growing problem about zero-day exploits found in old software series: take Java SE7 for instance. This week Oracle released a series of security patches for its current Java SE8 software. Oracle no longer support Java SE7 - so if your enterprise is still running SE7 then none of the recent patches can be downloaded automatically. "So Enterprises running Java SE 7 applications -- which is virtually every large enterprise today -- cannot automatically download and apply these important security fixes."