Orthogonality is a concept often used to describe modular and maintainable software, but it’s more easily understood by way of a case study. In this article, Jens Dietrich demystifies orthogonality ...

Cybersecurity giant Fortinet found that Log4j had nearly 50 times the activity volume compared to ProxyLogon based on peak 10-day average volume in the second half of 2021. The finding was part of the ...

Log4Shell, an internet vulnerability that affects millions of computers, involves an obscure but nearly ubiquitous piece of software, Log4j. The software is used to record all manner of activities ...

statements, however. The logging system can add contextual information—filename, line number, and date, for example—to the message automatically. You can redirect the messages to different ...

It was a shock to all in cybersecurity as Java and the Log4j open-source logging library are prevalent, commonly used across software applications and online services. The issue quickly came to the ...

On Dec. 9, the Apache Software Foundation issued a Log4j security alert that a vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), aka Log4Shell, allows unauthenticated users to remotely execute or update software code ...

The high-tech community is still trying to figure out the long-term impact of the serious vulnerability found late last year in the open-source Apache Log4j software, and so is the US Senate. “Open ...

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they ...

Microsoft researchers have discovered a previously undisclosed vulnerability in the SolarWinds Serv-U software while monitoring threats related to Log4J vulnerabilities. Jonathan Bar Or explained on ...

Researchers are warning that attackers are actively exploiting the newly publicized unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Log4j, the Java-based logging tool from Apache. While the ...

It’s been four months since Log4Shell, a critical zero-day vulnerability in the ubiquitous Apache Log4j library, was discovered, and threat analysts warn that the application of the available fixes is ...

Microsoft says it’s only going to get worse: It’s seen state-sponsored and cyber-criminal attackers probing systems for the Log4Shell flaw through the end of December. No surprise here: The holidays ...