On Thursday, December 9, 2021, my young, Minecraft-addicted kids were still completely oblivious of the Log4j vulnerabilities in their favorite game. Then again, so was every cybersecurity professional in the world.

That all changed when the Apache Log4j project announced CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell) – a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j’s standardized method of handling log files used by apps all over the world, from Microsoft’s Minecraft to Twitter to Tesla to Apple’s iCloud. This led to a blaze of stories about how the internet is “on fire.”