What are Log4Shell and log4j and should you be worried about them?

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By Ian BarkerDec 15, 2021, 5:41 am216 pts
At the end of November a vulnerability targeting Minecraft servers was uncovered. If you don't play Minecraft you probably didn't pay it much attention. Since then, however, 'Log4Shell' has surged across the web sending tremors through the security community and prompting the US government to describe it as a…

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