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

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As our world becomes increasingly data-driven, the impact of data breaches can also reach hundreds of millions or billions. In a world dominated by digital transformation, data breaches have reached unprecedented levels as attackers exploit the daily dependence on data

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