Across all sectors and the federal government, finding and rooting out Log4j vulnerability instances has proved a considerable challenge. But with patient safety at stake, and where legacy devices and applications abound, the healthcare sector is struggling.
Despite the lack of activity, CISA officials said they remain in a heightened state of concern, as there are several potentially troubling explanations for why Log4j activity has been so low.
A government repository for products affected by or safe from the Log4J vulnerability has exploded in recent weeks. Two members of the cybersecurity community have rolled out a new search tool to make it easier to navigate the increasingly cumbersome list.
Equifax’s breach was the perfect opportunity to prepare for future vulnerabilities like Log4Shell. Not enough organizations seized the opportunity to learn from it.
CISA warns that a successful exploit could enable an attacker to gain access to sensitive data, modify system settings or parameters, or perform arbitrary actions.
The greatest exploit in the world, throw some more logs on the log4j fire, lock picking with a zip tie, hacking metal detectors, please disclose your vulnerabilities here, bugs in Wifi and Bluetooth have an interesting relationship, not-so-secret backdoors, taking over domain controllers, and interesting precopulatory behavior in darkling beetles!
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