In late November, a cloud-security researcher for Chinese tech giant Alibaba discovered a flaw in a popular open-source coding framework called Log4j. The employee quickly notified Log4j’s parent ...

Check for Log4j vulnerabilities with this simple-to-use script Your email has been sent One great thing about Linux and the open source community is that as soon as a vulnerability is detected, ...

A newly discovered cybersecurity flaw is affecting vast swaths the internet from Google and Amazon to the systems used to run militaries and hospitals, with US Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity ...

Peter Membrey, chief architect of ExpressVPN, remembers vividly seeing the news of the Log4j vulnerability break online. “As soon as I saw how you could exploit it, it was horrifying,” says Membrey.

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.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As cybersecurity teams grapple with having to potentially patch their ...

The vulnerability allows remote code execution on servers, including those operated by Apple, Twitter, Valve, Tencent, and other major service providers. I've been writing about tech, including ...

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 North Korean hacking and cyber-espionage operation breached the network of an engineering firm linked to military and energy organisations by exploiting a cybersecurity vulnerability in Log4j. First ...

A critical flaw in widely used software has cybersecurity experts raising alarms and big companies racing to fix the issue. The vulnerability, which was reported late last week, is in Java-based ...