CISA, Five Eyes issue guidance meant to slow Log4Shell attacks

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released Wednesday an advisory offering vendors and affected organizations a detailed guide on how to deal with potential risks to IT and cloud services posed by an exploit in Apache Log4j’s software library. “This joint CSA expands on the previously published guidance by detailing steps that vendors and organizations with IT and/or cloud assets should take to reduce the risk posed by these vulnerabilities,” the advisory states. The warning was issued alongside the FBI and National Security Agency and the security agencies of Five Eyes intelligence partners, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom. “Log4j vulnerabilities present a severe and ongoing threat to organizations and governments around the world; we implore all entities to take immediate action to implement the latest mitigation guidance to protect their networks,” CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a statement. The alert follows previous guidance […]

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Is my MySQL Server (run by php/apache) affected by the Log4j vulnerability?

From an article for the new Log4j vulnerability, it reads here:

A researcher working for Chinese tech firm Alibaba discovered the bug and privately informed the Apache Software Foundation, an all-volunteer corporation that develops and ma… Continue reading Is my MySQL Server (run by php/apache) affected by the Log4j vulnerability?