Oracle updates Java, Adam Gowdiak says it still has bugs

Oracle Corp released an emergency update to its widely used Java software for surfing the Web on Sunday, days after the US government urged PC users to disable the program because of a bug it said made computers vulnerable to attack by hackers.

Java security expert Adam Gowdiak, who has discovered several bugs in the software over the past year, said that the update from Oracle leaves unfixed several critical security flaws. "We don't dare to tell users that it's safe to enable Java again," said Mr Gowdiak, a researcher with Poland's Security Explorations.