Frequently Asked Questions - Java Security Security Top | Security Bug Chronology | Security Q & A Archive The goal for the JDK is to enable browsers to run untrusted applets in a trusted environment. Our approach is to be conservative at first, and to add functionality when it can be added securely. The intent is to prevent applets from inspecting or changing files on the client file system.

History People Partners Research Publications FAQ Links Java Security: From HotJava to Netscape and Beyond Authors Drew Dean Edward W. Felten Dan S. Wallach Abstract The introduction of Java applets has taken the World Wide Web by storm. Information servers can customize the presentation of their content with server-supplied code which executes inside the Web browser. We examine the Java ...

Java Security Joseph A. Bank jbank@mit.edu Fri Dec 8 01:51:30 EST 1995 Introduction Java is a new programming language from Sun Microsystems (currently in beta release). The Java language has a number of interesting properties. One property is that it is intended to be portable, even to the extent that programs can be dynamically loaded over the network and run locally. In particular, small ...

Java Security Denial of service May 10, 1996 Hostile Applet web pages have been compiled and published on the web. These are collections of Java applets that consume resources in rude or malicious ways, so that either all the CPU or memory resources of your computer are consumed, or, you are tricked into thinking a dangerous attack has been launched on your computer. These hostile applets are ...