September 20, 2022
Understanding and Preventing the Log4j Exploit and Botnets
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 Foundation, on 24 November, 2021, by the Chinese tech giant Alibaba and it took two weeks to develop and release a fix. The existence of the Log4j exploit was first publicly published in a tweet by Chen Zhaojun, a cyber security researcher with the Alibaba Cloud Security team on December 9, 2021
August 8, 2022
How more than 1000 IT leaders use APIs, integration and microservices
The keys to making digital transformation possible are APIs, integration and microservices. But managing all these connections is no trivial task. The latest research from Vanson Bourne (a survey of over 1150 global IT executives) revealed that APIs are used extensively across a wide variety of projects in organizations, especially those focusing on digital transformation (98%), innovation (97%), and modernization (97%).
July 27, 2022
Quantum computing promises breakthrough advances, but serious concerns remain
That said, breakthroughs in the last few years have raised hopes that these complex machines will move from high-tech labs to mainstream commercial use over the next decade. Azure Quantum from Microsoft is already open for limited preview, while IBM has promised its first quantum computers by 2025. Google, on the other hand, is aiming to build a "useful, error-corrected quantum computer" by 2029.
