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Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet
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Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Exploit code has been released for a serious code-execution vulnerability in Log4j, an open source logging utility that’s used in countless apps, including those used by large enterprise organizations, several websites reported last Thursday. Word of the vulnerability first came to light on sites catering to users of Minecraft, the best-selling...

300,000 MikroTik routers are ticking security time bombs, researchers say
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300,000 MikroTik routers are ticking security time bombs, researchers say

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As many as 300,000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in Internet-crippling DDoS attacks, researchers said. The estimate, made by researchers at security firm Eclypsium, is based on Internet-wide scans that searched...