It's the holy grail of malware: A truly cross-platform bot that can run on any system. Well, almost any. Kaspersky Lab has come across a functioning bot written entirely in Java, and which works on ...

Two years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made a big push for its bot development tools and the idea of "conversation as a service." Since then, things have gone a bit quiet. But it ...

Pity today's cybercriminal. Sure, attackers can get by focusing on Windows -- but with the increasing market share of Mac OS X and the proliferation of smartphones, one operating system platform just ...

The multi-talented bot, which can carry out DDoS via either HTTP or UDP flood attacks, was discovered by Zoltan Balazs, CTO at MRG Effitas, and shared with Kaspersky Lab for analysis. The firm ...

Apache Commons IO provides a set of utilities for working with the file system that can be helpful in preventing path traversal vulnerabilities. The FilenameUtils class contains methods for ...

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have analyzed a malicious Java application that turned out to be a cross-platform bot used for DDoS attacks. Java-related security issues have remained relatively quiet ...

Oracle has officially announced the OpenJDK 25. The release offers a total of 18 JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals), many of which are marked as final. The version number just happens to match the year: ...