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Details on the Java 0Day – Yet another way to hack your system

This Thursday, the security blogger Kafeine posted a blog post where he disclosed information about a severe 0day for Java. According to security researchers, this vulnerability has been exploited since mid December. Java has had quite a few problems with security vulnerabilities for the last 12 months, and ironically, the new 0day appears to be introduced by an incomplete patch from October, meant to fix one of these security bugs. The vulnerability is present on all platforms and browsers and could let an attacker to execute code on your computer with administrator privileges. This can be considered as the attacker having full control of your system.