{"id":30769,"date":"2013-01-12T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=30769"},"modified":"2013-01-24T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T07:09:13","slug":"department-of-homeland-security-wants-you-to-disable-your-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/department-of-homeland-security-wants-you-to-disable-your-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Of Homeland Security Wants You To Disable Your Java"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been concerned about the security of Java for a while now. There was that vulnerability that affected like a billion computers, and Apple went so far as to remove Java plugins from all OSX browsers. \u00a0Now even the Department of Homeland Security is in on the act with a special message: &#8220;Yo, shut off that Java jazz&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Java exploits can make your computer (Mac or PC) vulnerable to all kinds of nasty stuff from ransomeware to assorted other virus-y goodness. There are plenty of &#8220;exploit kits&#8221; out there to help script kiddies get their jollies by messing with your stuff. As such, the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Emergency Readiness Team put out a notice saying &#8220;Due to the number and severity of this and prior Java vulnerabilities, it is recommended that Java be disabled temporarily in web browsers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5975415\/even-the-department-of-homeland-security-wants-you-to-disable-your-java\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=420ca137-fa04-467c-a12b-dc4c689d0276\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been concerned about the security of Java for a while now. There was that vulnerability that affected like a billion computers, and Apple went so far as to remove Java plugins from all OSX browsers. \u00a0Now even the Department of Homeland Security is in on the act with a special message: &#8220;Yo, shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[717],"tags":[1246,1006,2229,1093,9247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30769"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30855,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions\/30855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}