In this blog post, I look at Log4j ‘s overloaded Logger.log methods and java.util.logging ‘s overloaded Logger.log methods. The next example is a little contrived, but should suffice.

The number of attacks aiming to take advantage of the recently disclosed security flaw in the Log4j2 Java logging library continues to grow. The vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was publicly ...

Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j, a logging library that’s used in potentially millions of Java-based applications, including web-based ones.

Aborting."); System.exit(1); } Some other good features of Java exception handling are checked exceptions, user-defined exceptions, and the new Java logging API coming out in JDK 1.4.

A critical flaw in a popularly used Java library is being exploited by malicious actors to deliver malware, while security researchers are scanning for vulnerable servers. The flaw and a proof-of ...

The stat that caught my eye, of course, was this one: "When examining popularity around languages, the data shows that 50% of all logs ingested by language agents comes from Java. Java has a ...