Apple has released a Java patch for its aging Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system. The release comes on the heels of the sweeping Java software security update released by owner Oracle Corp.

Following a recent addition of Java to its plug-in blacklist, Apple has issued an update to its supported Java versions. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

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Update: Apple's Java team has quickly responded to the patch with a revised JVM for Snow Leopard, OS X 10.6. The Java for Mac OS 10.6 Update version 12 (APPLE-SA-2013-02-01-1) is available in Software ...

“Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Java 1.6.0_26, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to execute arbitrary code outside the Java sandbox. Visiting a web page containing a ...

Fire up Software Update, and you’re likely to find a Java-flavored update waiting for you. Apple has updated Java for both Snow Leopard and Leopard, releasing Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5 and Java ...

Apple has fixed the vulnerability through which the Flashback malware attacks Mac systems, but only in supported versions of OS X, not Tiger and Leopard. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid ...

While Macintosh users are enthusiastically putting the new version of OS X through its paces, one problem has cropped up early: problems with Java and Adobe Flash. By most accounts, upgrades to ...

Many developers were upset that Apple did not including Java 6 in Leopard, especially given the significant upgrades for a number of other programming tools — like Python and Ruby — that shipped with ...