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Days as they've been combing through systems that use this library and putting patches in place. that's the big thing that you can do. the government recommended putting in mitigations so there are protections you can put in at the firewall level in order to prevent this if for some reason you can't patch immediately or isolating systems, removing them from the internet if they're vulnerable, they can't be patched and you can't put a fire wall in front of it. >> no cyberattack to talk about right now. we're talking about vulnerable software and fixes need to be put in to -- so that -- so the h...

The concern is over a critical software vulnerability in a program known as log 4 j. firms like google, amazon and ibm all use the software. it's used in apple's cloud computing services and in the popular video game minecraft. to join us now to discuss the risks and challenges, alan liska. i don't understand what this means. what do you mean by vulnerability in the software? how does this impact regular folks at home? >> sure. so log 4 j is a library. think of it like a plug-in that other software uses to manage system logs. when you connect into a website or play minecraft or whatever, compa...

It has earmarked 400 million doses for a population that's over 60 million. and this is one of the countries that has one of the best success stories so far around the world in terms of how many people it's vaccinated. more than half of uk britons have been offered two doses of a vaccination, and they're already talking about potentially vaccinating schoolchildren over the course of the summer holidays. >> thank you so much, nina dos santos in london. anotherish talk on the u.s. president's agenda, ransomware tacks that are on the rise. as we saw with colonial pipeline in april, a successful...

That complicated. and there are people, new people signing up every day. so there has to be better cooperation amongst law enforcement. and there does have to be pressure put on the kremlin to take action against these threat actors. because most of the ransomware activity occurs either in russia or russia-aligned states. and the ransomware actors know that they can get away with it and there's going to be very little chance of them engaged in any punishment or receiving any punishment. >> all right, we'll have to leave it there. thanks so much, alan liska, really appreciate it. seven months...