After observations of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) months, the number of attempted attacks on Java vulnerabilities in the past has increased dramatically. According to Holly Stewart of MMPC attacks have been since mid-six million three older Java gaps registered. The number of attacks on the contested application in the category of most former leading Adobe Reader is by far surpassed it.

Stewart speculated that burglary is on Java for criminals promising because, like Adobe's software installed almost anywhere, the user is less present. Java users would therefore probably update less often one of the unused gaps is two years old. You may also take Adobe's efforts bear fruit, safer to make the reader. The manufacturer had, inter ilia, for the automatic update feature improved. This may lead them to criminals, to avoid Java.

This is supported by the observations by Brian Krebs, who determined that many commercially available attack tools for criminal Java exploits are contained. Oracle had only last week as part of its October Patch Days updates Java releases, the 29 holes spread over the whole versions 6.0, 5.0 and 1.4.2 for all supported platforms closed. 15 of Oracle vulnerabilities classified as a critically.