We don't usually post stuff like this on the main page, but it's serious enough that I felt everyone should get a look at it and the topic won't be as easily buried on the news page. It appears that Java has a rather serious security hole in it that's been discovered. Since Java is a cross-platform language this means EVERYONE needs to pay attention to it, even the Linux users out there.
www.newscientist.com news item
"Such [an] applet can then take any action which the user could: browse, read, or modify files, upload more programs to the victim system and run them, or send out data from the system," writes Pynnonen in an alert on his website.
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