{"id":7909,"date":"2012-04-12T20:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T03:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2012-04-12T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T03:36:51","slug":"apple-releases-java-for-os-x-2012-003-to-address-flashback-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/04\/12\/apple-releases-java-for-os-x-2012-003-to-address-flashback-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases Java for OS X 2012-003 to address Flashback malware."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Apple Support:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Java security update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware.<\/p>\n<p>This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Available for <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/DL1515\" target=\"_blank\">OS X Lion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/DL1516\" target=\"_blank\">Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 8)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/java-for-os-x-2012-003.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7910\" title=\"Java-for-OS-X-2012-003\" src=\"https:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/java-for-os-x-2012-003.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"620\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is recommended to disable Java in Safari. Go to Safari Preferences &gt; Security &gt; uncheck &#8220;Enable Java&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/safari-disable-java.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7911\" title=\"Safari-disable-Java\" src=\"https:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/safari-disable-java.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple no longer includes Java runtime with OS X Lion. If you never had any programs that required Java, OS X Lion will not prompt you to download and install the Java update.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/os-x-installed-software-update.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7912\" title=\"OS-X-Installed-Software-Update\" src=\"https:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/os-x-installed-software-update.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Apple Support: This Java security update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware. This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/04\/12\/apple-releases-java-for-os-x-2012-003-to-address-flashback-malware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple releases Java for OS X 2012-003 to address Flashback malware.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[1703,1872,1931,1966,2229,2511,2648,2736,2747,936],"class_list":["post-7909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-java","tag-lion","tag-mac-os-x","tag-malware","tag-os-x","tag-resources","tag-security","tag-snow-leopard","tag-software-update","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-23z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}