Should I be concerned with the recent news about Java on my mac

Have been hearing all the news about the concerns with Java from Homeland Security and that users should disable from their computers temporarily. I am by no means a techie, however I see that Mac uses Java applet. Is this something I should look at temporrily disabling from my Mac? I wasn't sure how to proceed. Can some one give some advise and in layman terms.......

Java is only a potential problem if you have it installed and enabled in your Internet browser. Safari has had it disabled as the default for a while now.
To check to make sure it is disabled in your browser. Open Safari->Preferences->Security and make sure Enable Java is not checked
Note: Java and JavaScript are two different languages and are not to be confused. JavaScript is fine to have enabled.
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