'Especially dangerous' Java zero day discovered, same type as used in Equifax breach

John Leonard
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'Especially dangerous' Java zero day discovered, same type as used in Equifax breach
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'Especially dangerous' Java zero day discovered, same type as used in Equifax breach

Patch Log4j urgently admins urged, as memories of 2017 Equifax hack loom large

A proof of concept exploit has been published on GitHub that attacks a remote code execution zero day flaw in Apache Log4j, a very widely used logging program for Java software. The flaw, tracke...

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