What's the Hype with Chrome 100 and with Log4j?
The end of the year looks more buggy than we hoped for
Hey everybody,
This is my last newsletter for 2021. Before I share my new articles with you, I would like to ask about your suggestions for:
What should I write more about in 2022?
Answers in the comments or per email are very than welcome :)
In 2022, User Agent Strings Reach 3-Digits, Which May Break Websites Access
The Web is a legacy machine that can be a hot mess. It’s full of history and is bound to repeat itself.
If you are old enough, you may remember the Y2K bug (Year 2000 bug), which was caused by the fact that computer systems were not designed to recognize dates after the year 1999, and were not ready for the transition to the new millennium. That bug made the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900.
Two decades later, Chrome is about to face a comparable problem.
Not all website kits are compatible with three-digit version numbers, although Chrome 100 will be released in a few months.
What’s the Hype With Log4j?
As we are nearing the end of the year and many people are preparing themselves for the holidays, this period means for admins, security experts, as well as attackers, anything but quiet days.
They are all around the world working overtime and even sleepless because of the same reason, but for different goals.
On December 9, 2021, Apache disclosed a zero-day vulnerability called Log4Shell in the Java logging library Log4j, and since then the topic is hitting the headlines.
As someone who used Log4j in some of his projects and trusted it just like hundreds of thousands of other Java developers, I wanted to share this piece with you.
Have a nice day and a happy new year!
— Rakia
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