The Java Control Panel has a slider under the Security tab “to control the behavior when attempting to run unsigned apps (either from the web or local).” The settings are low, medium, high and very ...

The four Java control panel settings are security settings introduced in Java SE7 Update 10 in October 2012 to control the access unsigned Java apps have to the system. It allows a user to set ...

In this case, the application vendors don’t want to change the browser settings, and a user has to manually enable the latest installed version of Java in the Java Control Panel.

There are several ways to do this. In the latest Java runtime, you can access the Java Control Panel and in the security settings uncheck the option to "Enable Java content in the browser." This ...

Java’s new security settings, designed to block drive-by browser attacks, can be bypassed by hackers, a researcher announced Sunday. The news came in the aftermath of several embarrassing zero ...

Java's new security settings, designed to block "drive-by" browser attacks, can be bypassed by hackers, a researcher announced Sunday.

A new Java exploit was discovered yesterday that bypasses the Java security model using clever social engineering that takes advantage of weak security settings in the Java security control panel.