The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urged the private and public sectors to actively address a critical vulnerability that a growing set of threat actors are exploiting.
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CISA said a vulnerability in Java logging library log4j poses a “severe risk” to any device that runs the program and is exposed to the internet.
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CISA recommends steps to mitigate the vulnerability: enumerating external-facing devices, actioning every alert on these devices, and installing a web application firewall with automatic updates.
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Apache released an updated version of log4j to address the vulnerability.
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Microsoft issued guidance for addressing log4j exploitation.
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