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

Ransomware top threat, telecom most affected industry, says Cisco report

Ransomeware continued to be the top threat and telecommunications was the most affected industry in the first quarter of 2022, according to a new trends report.

Tanium introduces free comprehensive risk assessment

Tanium has announced a new five-day risk assessment that provides a holistic and quantifiable enterprise-wide view of an organization’s risk posture.