Facebook Hacked by Zero-Day Java Exploit

[Guest]

It's not Java's fault that there are all these security holes. It's Oracle's fault for not properly developing and maintaining the runtime environment. Microsoft's .NET runtime is just as vulnerable, but MS releases security patches on a regular basis, and they are actively developing the runtime.

Java is a great language that is unfortunately in the care of the wrong company. I'd like to see it handed off to a non-profit consortium and maintained by the open-source community, or maybe it could be purchased by Google or IBM.

 

[mrmaia]

So Facebook employees were infected with zero-day Java exploit, which in turn is different from the one at Twitter. The site itself was not affected and no personal data from the employees was robbed as it seems.

TH and their clickwhoring headlines.