Security professionals say it is one of the worst computer vulnerabilities they have ever seen as agencies in the United States and Australia sound the alarm on Log4j software.
In the US, the top cybersecurity defence official, Jen Easterly, deemed the flaw "one of the most serious I've seen in my entire career, if not the most serious" in a call on Monday with state and local officials as well as partners in the private sector.
"I think we won't see a single major software vendor in the world -- at least on the industrial side -- not have a problem with this," Sergio Caltagirone, the company's vice president of threat intelligence, said. "I think what's going to happen is it's going to take two weeks before the effect of this is seen because hackers got into organisations and will be figuring out what to do to next," Mr Graham-Cumming said.
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