Adam Levin

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The timing of the discovery of the vulnerability also works against organizations; many IT teams and cybersecurity personnel who would typically be working to apply patches and mitigate would-be cyberthreats often work with skeleton crews over the holiday season. Here’s a quick breakdown of what it means for internet users. What is Log4J?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. I’ve recently had several deep-dive discussions with cybersecurity experts at Juniper Networks, about this. Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Log4J, aka Log4Shell, refers to a gaping vulnerability that exists in an open-source logging library that’s deeply embedded within servers and applications all across the public Internet. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. Implementing SBOM.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Instead, memory attacks are transient.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

TwistLock, Anchore) check built docker image for out-of-date, vulnerable libraries. Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. For example: Software Component Analysis tools (e.g., Container Scanners (e.g., Network Scanners (e.g., We’ve Evolved Before.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

TwistLock, Anchore) check built docker image for out-of-date, vulnerable libraries. Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. For example: Software Component Analysis tools (e.g., Container Scanners (e.g., Network Scanners (e.g., We’ve Evolved Before.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

TwistLock, Anchore) check built docker image for out-of-date, vulnerable libraries. Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. For example: Software Component Analysis tools (e.g., Container Scanners (e.g., Network Scanners (e.g., We’ve Evolved Before.

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