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Amid violent threats, lawmaker ditches bill to make unvaxxed pay hospital bills
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Amid violent threats, lawmaker ditches bill to make unvaxxed pay hospital bills

Enlarge / Intensive Care Unit nurse monitors patients in the ICU ward at Roseland Community Hospital on December 14, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois. (credit: Getty | Scott Olson) Illinois Representative Jonathan Carroll is scrapping his proposed legislation to make willfully unvaccinated people pay COVID-19 hospital bills out of pocket after he received violent threats that also…

The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day
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The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day

Enlarge (credit: Kevin Beaumont) The list of services with Internet-facing infrastructure that is vulnerable to a critical zero-day vulnerability in the open source Log4j logging utility is immense and reads like a who’s who of the biggest names on the Internet, including Apple, Amazon, Cloudflare, Steam, Tesla, Twitter, and Baidu. The vulnerability, now going by…

Minecraft and other apps face serious threat from Log4j code execution bug
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Minecraft and other apps face serious threat from Log4j code execution bug

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A newly discovered vulnerability affecting Java versions of Minecraft makes it possible for miscreants to execute malicious code on servers and end-user devices running the wildly popular game, several websites said on Thursday. And as if a vulnerability of this magnitude in the world’s best-selling game wasn’t serious enough, the breadth…