Episode 335: Eager to take a JNDI lookup

This week we discuss how the industry reacted to the Log4j vulnerability and the merits of going Multicloud. Plus, some thoughts on printer paper.

Rundown

• Log4j and OSS
  • Security warning: New zero-day in the Log4j Java library is already being exploited
  • ‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system
  • What you need to know about the Log4J vulnerability rocking the internet
  • Zero-Day Exploit Targeting Popular Java Library Log4j
  • Paying people to work on OSS
  • Don’t pay people to work on OSS?
• AWS Outage and Multicloud
  • Is multi-cloud getting more popular? It always has been, also, it means a lot.
  • Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
  • https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com

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