(Yet another) Critical Java Patch Update Java SE 7u13

[Phillip McCleod]

1. thanks this is good info..

i'm a repair tech and we had a firefighter in the shop yesterday with a mac that appeared to have been hacked via a java-based weather applet he said he used a lot. they cleaned out his bank accounts! among other nasty deeds. they appear to have accessed safari password keychain and then just went hog-wild. thankfully f.d.i.c. saved his ass but still it was wicked to hear about it first hand.

he wanted to know a good antivirus program for his mac and i sent him to avast! but had to inform him that it wouldn't protect him from the java exploits. basically as i understand it apple has disabled java for now but it was just too late for this poor fellow.

it's a weird new world for mac/*nix users to be suddenly worrying about malware and security holes. i don't like it.