Click on the image at the top of this article for a list of other dangerous file types. I was somewhat surprised to fine the ZIP format in line after Java and HTML. Then I remembered that the DOCX and ...

Hackers have developed new Java-based ransomware that targets Windows and Linux devices. According to Techcrunch's latest report, a new kind of ransomware was discovered by security researchers. They ...

Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

Java applications, widely used in mobile games, robots, embedded systems, and business applications, have been scrutinized by European researchers led by Alexandre Bartel, Professor of Software ...

Security researchers have discovered a new kind of ransomware that uses a little-known Java file format to make it more difficult to detect before it detonates its file-encrypting payload. Consulting ...

I have touched on several subjects in individual posts prior to this one that now come together in this single post. These subjects include use of File.deleteOnExit() in Groovy, creation of temporary ...