The Worst Internet Vulnerability Ever? And It Isn't Going Away Soon. What's Log4J?

<p>2021-12-18 1144</p> <p>[00:00:00] Well, the tech world is all a buzz with this log for J or log for shell. However you want to call it because we are looking at what is probably the biggest security vulnerability the internet has had in a long time.</p> <p>[00:00:16] This is huge, huge, huge to chew.</p> <p>[00:00:19] I don't know how to express it anymore, but there are multiple problems here. And even the patch that was released to fix this problem was broken as being exploited in the last 24 hours. There've been no less than 30 different new. Variations of the exploit. So what is going on? There is a computer language that's used by many programmers, particularly in larger businesses called Java.</p> <p>[00:00:52] You might remember this, I've been following it and using it now, since it first came out very long time ago from sun Microsystems. Java is a language that's designed to have kind of an intimate. CPU processor. So think about it. If you have an Intel chip that is an x86 type chip, what can you use instead of that Intel chip to run that code?</p> <p>[00:01:19] Well, there are some compatible chips made mainly by AMD advanced micro devices, but you're really rather limited. You have problems. Power. Well, you know, guess what you're stuck. You're stuck in that architecture. And then on the other end of the spectrum, you have some of these devices that are designed by companies like apple, Google has their own.</p> <p>[00:01:41] Now that our CPU's their graphics processing units as well. And they completely replaced the Intel architecture. But the Intel code, the programs that are written for the Intel architecture that are compiled for Intel are not going to work on the apple chips and vice versa. So what did apple do? Well, apple, for instance, just moved from Intel over to.</p> <p>[00:02:08] Own chipsets and these chips don't run Intel code. So how can you run your old apple apps? Well, apple has a little translator. They call Rosetta. It sits in the middle and it pretends it's an Intel processor.