Sun Microsystems announced Monday some updates to their Java Software Development Kit and Java Runtime Environment to address some security issues. These security vulnerabilities could allow malicious, untrusted code to compromise a user's computer.  Sun recommends that users update to the newest version of  the SDK and JRE available at http://java.sun.com .

For more information about the security issues please take a look at:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/searchproxy/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102050-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/searchproxy/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102003-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102017-1
http://secunia.com/advisories/17748/

Thanks to all of the readers who have notified us of this issue this evening.


Scott Fendley
Handler on Duty

Update

Apple released security advisory stating that these Java vulnerabilities were fixed quite some time ago for Mac users. Java 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 Release 2, which are patched, have been available since September 13, while J2SE 5.0 Release 3 has been available since November 15, 2005.

In case you still didn't update, visit the following links:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/java2se50release3.html
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/java131and142release2.html