{"id":132141,"date":"2021-12-10T23:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T07:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/global-race-to-patch-critical-computer-bug"},"modified":"2021-12-10T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T07:23:32","slug":"global-race-to-patch-critical-computer-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/global-race-to-patch-critical-computer-bug","title":{"rendered":"Global race to patch critical computer bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/global-race-to-patch-critical-computer-bug2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Security experts around the world raced Friday to patch one of the worst computer vulnerabilities discovered in years, a critical flaw in open-source code widely used across industry and government in cloud services and enterprise software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d be hard-pressed to think of a company that\u2019s not at risk,\u201d said Joe Sullivan, chief security officer for Cloudflare, whose online infrastructure protects websites from malicious actors. Untold millions of servers have it installed, and experts said the fallout would not be known for several days.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s computer emergency response team was among the first to report that the flaw in a Java-language utility for Apache servers used to log user activity was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cert.govt.nz\/it-specialists\/advisories\/log4j-rce-0-day-actively-exploited\/\">being \u201cactively exploited in the wild\u201d<\/a> just hours after it was publicly reported Thursday and a patch released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts around the world raced Friday to patch one of the worst computer vulnerabilities discovered in years, a critical flaw in open-source code widely used across industry and government in cloud services and enterprise software. \u201cI\u2019d be hard-pressed to think of a company that\u2019s not at risk,\u201d said Joe Sullivan, chief security officer for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}