Oracle has released new updates for Java with security enhancements for better performance. This new release of Java SE 7 update 10 is now certified for both Windows 8 and Mac OS X operating systems.

1. Do you know? Security flaws persists in Java 7u10 update !
Oracle has released new updates for Java with security enhancements for better performance.
This new release of Java SE 7 update 10 is now certified for both Windows 8 and Mac OS X
operating systems.
These updates includes the ability to use the control panel to prevent Java applications from
running in browsers, as well as to set a level of security for unsigned applets, Java FX
applications and Java Web Start applications. It also adds a dialogue box to warn people when
Java plug-in updates are available for download. But the update of JDK 7u10 has failed to fix
some major security troubles and have brought only minor improvements, experts say.
Andrew Storms, the director of security operations at ncircle quoted “New features
notwithstanding, Oracle still has a long way to go to improve security” referring to the fact that
the hackers are aware that most people do not keep the Java plug-in up to date, hence leaving
old flaws open to misuse by the trespassers and attackers. HP’s security research division
reported that in the year 2011 an attack integrated with the black hole toolkit had more than
75 percent success rate for the attackers.
According to the reports it is also said that for large businesses and Industries, only a full-time IT
security staff will be able to figure out the new settings help and if managed centrally from
Microsoft Active Directory or other directory servers. Storms also stated “Without this access,
the new settings will essentially be useless to enterprise IT teams” and pointed out that
consumers are not worrying to update Java; they are unwilling to learn the uses control panel.
Besides the security flaws other fixes includes Windows command line issues, the ability to
allow sandbox warning banner to grant access.