Adobe has been getting a lot of negative feedback 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 packages : 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 code - so if your software is still running , then none of the recent patches can be downloaded automatically . " So Enterprises running Java SE ##8 applications -- which is virtually every large enterprise today -- can not 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."