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 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."