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Originally Posted by ganbaru
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They exploited a security hole in Oracle Java, not so much the OS X operating system itself. Java 7 has
known vulnerabilities, so I tried to stick to Java 6. Now I've just decided to disable all the Java-based browser add-ons and extensions because I rarely if ever encounter a Java app on the Internet these days. The article mentions other attacks against Macs via the Adobe Flash plug-in. Again Flash 11 has had a
number of security flaws. I seem to get new updates from Adobe every few weeks.