Plugins are a major cause of browser security problems due to vulnerabilities especially with older versions. Just recently, a critical security vulnerability has been uncovered in the Java Deployment Toolkit browser plugin, a component of Java. The vulnerability is caused due to an input sanitation error in the Java Deployment Toolkit browser plugin. This can be exploited to pass arbitrary arguments to javaw.exe and e.g. execute a JAR file placed on a network share in a privileged context. As [...]

Netbeans is an IDE for multiple programming languages, such as C++, Java, JavaFX, Ruby, and PHP.  You will need the correct compilers to work with Netbeans for the multi-language support to work.  Netbeans offers many advanced programming features, such as creating a “Swing” graphical user interface program in Java, and auto-correcting of imports and other errors inside the editor window. Upon opening Netbeans, you will see an interface similar to the below.  Netbeans works better [...]

Java is an Object Oriented programming language.  ”Hold on, what’s Object Oriented?” will be the first response from most people who are not familiar with programming.  Object-Oriented means that the programming language is based on “objects”, blocks of code that can be reused after they are written.  Greenfoot is an IDE, or interactive development environment, for the Java programming language. Here’s a sample scenario for you:  we have a World of cells which [...]