"scare the pants off everybody moment"

 "What is a code talker? A code talker is the name given to American Indians who used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battlefield."

Today computer code is the backbone of commerce and military security.  The accepted language that many software packages use is Apache. 

“This is one of the worst vulnerabilities in the history of vulnerabilities,” Tom Kellermann, a former member of an Obama administration cybersecurity commission and the head of Cybersecurity Strategy at technology company VMware, told The Hill on Monday."

"The vulnerability in an Apache logging framework, known as “Log4j,” that could allow hackers to obtain access to targeted systems remotely sent experts running to update systems. Apache put out a security advisory warning of the threat and recommending steps to help organizations protect themselves." 

 

Read the full article here from The Hill