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 ...

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.

Of all the security issues that have appeared over the last few years, none has had the impact of the Log4j exploit. Also called the Log4Shell, it was reported to the developers, the Apache Software ...

Last weekend was a bad time to be a server administrator. A critical vulnerability emerged in Apache Log4j2. The big problem? Attackers have the chance to exploit the open-source Java package that all ...

The Log4j exploit, called Log4Shell or CVE-2021-44228 by some, has been in the news this past few weeks. It’s bad! It’s everywhere! But just what is it, really? How did it make its way onto millions ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Log4Shell, an internet vulnerability that affects millions of computers, involves an obscure but nearly ubiquitous piece of software, ...

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 ...

Similar diagnostic messages are used throughout software applications. For example, in the online game Minecraft, Log4j is used by the server to log activity like total memory used and user commands ...

Log4Shell is a Java library vulnerability. When it was first discovered, Minecraft and its server software were developed in Java, so it became a big topic in the management area of Minecraft servers, ...