GitHub has issued a security alert on Thursday warning about a new malware strain that's been spreading on its site via boobytrapped Java projects. The malware, which GitHub's security team has named ...

The company plans to grab a bigger slice of Java tools business by overhauling its NetBeans software and by improving how tools and code work together. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

• Identify user's NetBeans directory • Enumerate all projects in the NetBeans directory • Copy malicious payload cache.dat to nbproject/cache.dat • Modify the nbproject/build-impl.xml file to make ...

The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces ...

On March 9, the GitHub Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) received a message from security researcher JJ, who had discovered a set of GitHub repositories actively serving malware. A deep-dive ...

NetBeans uses its projects’ settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac‘s use of the -source and -target. In this post, I look at some of the numerous benefits ...

Sun Microsystems laid out a plan on Thursday to bolster its Java tools and make them easier to link to other software. The plan centers on the company's NetBeans project, an open-source effort to ...