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Log4j log4shell vulnerability, what’s all the fuss about?

Earlier this month, a vulnerability was announced in an open-source logging utility from Apache called “log4j” that is used extensively in many applications, both web-based and in locally-installed computer software. A patch was immediately available, but needed to be installed by software vendors or web companies in each piece of software before they were again secure.

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National Phone Outage: Up to 40% of internet-based phones not working Monday and ongoing

National Phone Outage: Up to 40% of internet-based phones not working Monday and ongoing

You may have experienced some issues with phone calls, either making or receiving them, today. The details are not fully known, but one of the large phone carriers providing internet phone service to around 40% of customers in the United States and Canada (as a carrier, they connect internet-based phone systems with the Plain Old Telephone System, or POTS, phone numbers and lines) appears to have had a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack pointed at them, and we’ve seen phone call issues of various sorts since just before noon on Monday.

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