Log4J fears overblown as market draws Solar Winds parallel
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Log4J fears overblown as market draws Solar Winds parallel

James Thaler
January 11, 2022
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Last month, alarm bells were set off in the cyber world following a tweet published by a member of Alibaba’s Cloud Security team with a sample code exposing a vulnerability in Log4J, a framework widely used by software developers to track user activity and the behavior of applications.

The sudden emergence of the vulnerability is what is known in cyber parlance as a “zero-day” event. In such an event a major, potentially systemic vulnerability is suddenly publicized, giving cybercriminals the ability to exploit it for ransomware attacks...

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