Hi Oracle Security Folks, Following the tradition for one off Java Security Alerts Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2013-1493: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2013-1493-1915081.html The reporters http://blog.fireeye.com/research/2013/02/yaj0-yet-another-java-zero-day-2.html say it is an unreliable exploit. Of course it depends on Java being used in the browser so one fix is to unplug the JVM [...]