Orthogonality is a concept often used to describe modular and maintainable software, but it’s more easily understood by way of a case study. In this article, Jens Dietrich demystifies orthogonality ...

statements, however. The logging system can add contextual information—filename, line number, and date, for example—to the message automatically. You can redirect the messages to different ...

The high-tech community is still trying to figure out the long-term impact of the serious vulnerability found late last year in the open-source Apache Log4j software, and so is the US Senate. “Open ...

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they ...

Vulnerability disclosures often come in bunches, and unvetted patch updates can create their own problems. Here's how to assess and prioritize both. The past few weeks left IT professionals ...

The remotely exploitable flaw in Log4j – the widely deployed Java error logging library -- is being attacked by multiple actors and likely will remain so for many ...