Apple issues Java update for OS X Lion and Snow Leopard to make it more difficult for hackers to exploit other vulnerabilities. Apple was required to provide the defense-in-depth update because it still maintains Java 6, which it bundled with 2009’s OS X Snow Leopard. Apple is not responsible for Java 7; the company handed back control of the software to Oracle in 2010. The update brought Java 6 up to par with Oracle’s version 35, which released last Thursday, Aug. 30, which fixed three bugs in Java 7 that hackers had already begun exploiting.”]
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