July 2016 Quarterly Update from Oracle (276 vulnerabilities patched)
Oracle Patches 276 Vulnerabilities with July 2016 Update, including 13 for JavaSE Oracle's official update cycle is quarterly (unofficially, it's been as frequently as daily at times, before Adobe Flash stepped up to the plate as the target du jour for attackers) and the updates for July have just been published. For most of our customers, the primary impact is JavaSE (which we'll discuss in more detail below) but updates were also released for most everything in the Oracle fleet. There's a good write-up on ThreatPost here. Java - The latest version of Java is 8 update 101 and patches 13 vulnerabilities, 9 of which are remotely exploitable without authentication. If you have JavaSE installed and it is not the latest version (or if you have multiple versions installed),…