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Software Supply Chain Attacks Are A Growing Threat

October 3, 2022 Alex Woodie

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, so you probably don’t need something more to worry about. But the cat-and-mouse world of cybersecurity never sleeps, and one of the threats keeping the good guys up at night right now is the growing risk of software supply chain attacks. Unfortunately, security through obscurity won’t provide as much protection for the IBM i server this time around.

Just what is a software supply chain attack? According to the U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a software supply chain attack occurs when “a cyber threat actor infiltrates a …
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Log4j Hits Heritage Version of Navigator for i – No Patch Coming

January 12, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops running the old version of the Navigator for i client should be aware that the software is vulnerable to the Log4j security vulnerability, and there will be no patch to fix it, IBM says in a new security bulletin. There will, however, be fixes coming to other vulnerable components, including IWS, IAS, and IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), IBM says.

Just before we hit the holiday break, the extremely severe Apache Log4j security vulnerability was disclosed to the world, resulting in a frantic effort to patch servers, desktops, refrigerators – just about anything with a …
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