Hackers could take control of millions of servers, shutting them down or forcing them to spew malware due to widely-used faulty code. Here's how it happened, and what can you do to protect yourself.

Most likely bad actors already knew about this prior to December 9 th as it’s been reported that the vulnerability was exposed much earlier in Minecraft chat forums. The vulnerability exposes how the ...

News about a critical vulnerability in the Apache Log4j logging library broke last week when proof-of-concept exploits started to emerge on Thursday. Log4j is an open-source Java logging framework ...

Open-source software is everywhere now, but the Log4j flaw that affects Java enterprise applications is a reminder of what can go wrong in the complicated modern software supply chain. The challenge ...

According to Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, cyberattacks and data breaches involving the exploitation of vulnerabilities have almost tripled compared to previous years. Our recent ...

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A sure-fire way to prevent exploitation of Log4j vulnerabilities has yet to appear, but these actions are your best bet for reducing risk. The IT security community has been hard at work for the past ...

The number of attacks aiming to take advantage of the recently disclosed security flaw in the Log4j2 Java logging library continues to grow. The vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was publicly disclosed ...

A bug in the ubiquitous Log4j library can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on any system that uses Log4j to write logs. Does yours? Yesterday the Apache Foundation released an emergency ...