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CloudWatcher

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3. A lot of bad reporting going on
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 02:00 PM
Dec 2021

From above (and other sources too):

A common example of Log4j at work is when you type in or click on a bad web link and get a 404 error message. The web server running the domain of the web link you tried to get to tells you that there’s no such webpage. It also records that event in a log for the server’s system administrators using Log4j.

Well, no. I don't think that's quite correct. I'm running a web server with Apache, which by default it does *not* include Log4j (or Java). So to assert that every web server has the Log4j vulnerability is just not true.

Log4j is widely used as a logging too, but it is not installed by default when you run an Apache web server.

What is true is that my server's logs are full of hackers testing to see if I've got Log4j installed.

It bugs me that there's no infrastructure to block IP addresses that are being used by attackers. They can attack endlessly without consequence. I can add their addresses to my own black-list, but I'd sure like to see traffic from them blocked by their ISP (and if their ISP doesn't cooperate, drop the ISP from the Internet).

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