Video game downloads and console updates helped game industry traffic peak at 125% above average on Christmas day according to Akamai, which supports more than 225 game publishers globally.
The last weeks of 2021 got quite interesting for security professionals and software engineers.
Apache’s log4j library and its now prominent Java Naming and Directory Interface support, which enables easy remote code execution, made the news across the industry.
What makes Log4Shell scary is the widespread adoption of the Log4j library amongst Java applications, and the ease of remote exploitation.
A dangerous combination.
Patches got released, bypasses were discovered more patches were released and so forth.