Always a concern for DevOps teams, security has now become a critical part of developing and releasing software – a reality reflected on the sharp increase in JFrog blogs about DevSecOps. In fact, we generated so many hard-hitting and instructive blogs about security and compliance in 2021 that we decided our DevSecOps coverage deserved its …
The high risk associated with newly discovered vulnerabilities in the highly popular Apache Log4j library – CVE-2021-44228 (also known as Log4Shell) and CVE-2021-45046 – has led to a security frenzy of unusual scale and urgency. Developers and security teams are pressed to investigate the impact of Log4j vulnerabilities on their software, revealing multiple technical challenges …
On Thursday, Dec 9th 2021, a researcher from the Alibaba Cloud Security Team dropped a zero-day remote code execution exploit on Twitter, targeting the extremely popular log4j logging framework for Java (specifically, the 2.x branch called Log4j2). The vulnerability was originally discovered and reported to Apache by the Alibaba cloud security team on November 24th. …
