Volvo had some R&D data stolen in security breach

Volvo Cars is investigating a cybersecurity breach and theft of a limited amount of the company’s research and development data. The data breach was reported Friday by the Swedish automaker. The company said one of its file repositories had been illegally accessed by a third party. Investigations have revealed that a “limited amount of the […]

Apple iCloud, Twitter and Minecraft vulnerable to ‘ubiquitous’ zero-day exploit

A number of popular services, including Apple iCloud, Twitter, Cloudflare, Minecraft and Steam, are reportedly vulnerable to a zero-day exploit affecting a popular Java logging library. The vulnerability, dubbed “Log4Shell” by researchers at LunaSec and credited to Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, has been found in Apache Log4j, an open source logging utility that’s used in […]

log4jの脆弱性について

log4jとはJava用のloggingライブラリだ。loggingライブラリというのはログとして記録すべき文字列を受け取り、それをどこかに出力するものだ。文字列の中身を通常のloggingライブラリは気にしない。 log4jが通常のloggingライブラリと違うのは、文字列の中身を見て、一部の文字列を変数とみなして置換することだ。これは…

US wins appeal over extradition of WikiLeaks founder

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing the prospect of imminent extradition to the US after the UK High Court granted an appeal by the US government against an earlier (January) refusal by a UK judge to extradite him on mental health grounds. A final decision on whether or not to grant the extradition will be […]