US HOMELAND SECURITY – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned users to disable or uninstall Java software on their computers due to an exploitable weakness in Java 7.

Here is a link to the story on ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/homeland-security-warns-to-disable-java-amid-zero-day-flaw-7000009713/

Also the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said in a note published today (Jan. 29, 2013), “US-CERT recommends that affected UPnP device vendors and developers obtain and employ libupnp version 1.6.18, which addresses these vulnerabilities.”

Here is a link to the story on ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/homeland-security-disable-upnp-as-tens-of-millions-at-risk-7000010512/?s_cid=e589

Another article out about Java risks:   http://www.zdnet.com/java-open-source-frameworks-are-a-business-risk-study-7000010617/?s_cid=e539