"If the IT industry had a color-coded threat-level advisory system, the alerts would have spiked to red this week -- and in a way they did when the Department of Homeland Security, no less, urged users to disable or uninstall Java because of a serious security vulnerability. Judging by the ensuing avalanche of ink (mea culpa for adding to the pileup), you might think this attack took the industry by surprise. Far from it -- as Twitter engineer and security expert Charlie Miller told...
http://www.infoworld.com/t/security/why-the-java-threat-rang-every-alarm-211061?source=IFWNLE_nlt_firstlook_2013-01-18