Welcome to this week’s Quotes of the Week: Testing causing a problem for climate report and the big bug bounty list.
Stop Being Lazy, and Test Your Software
“Testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.”
Laura Frank presented a talk at the European version of DockerCon recently titled “Stop Being Lazy, and Test Your Software” where she brought up this quote from Edsger Dijkstra on what testing can be summarised as. The talk discussed how Docker can help developers with testing their code. Read More here
Testing Causes a Problem for A World Climate Report
“We’re talking about a time lag of years between the science and when they thought the software testing would be ready because of this question of whether one piece of software might develop a glitch”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (the federal body in the United States responsible for analyis of oceans and atmosphere) had a report published in Science recently that was challenged by a Republican Representative Lamar Smith as being too rushed. If fact, the paper was actually delayed The author of the study, Thomas Peterson explained that the reason for delay was the testing of software by developers that monitors the weather stations. Read More here
Friendly Security Testers Ignored
“There is no formal channels through which researchers can contact us if they are not affiliated with any of our clients or partners”
The corporation Temenos that supplies banking software to major banks around the world responds to requests about how it deals with security testers who wish to report bugs. One such example was Nadeem Douba. Read More here
The Big Bug Bounty List
“The average price of a vulnerability in the underground varies, but zero-day exploits often reach thousands of dollars within the five-figure range”
Charlie Osbourne reports on a long list compiled by Vulnerability Lab of all the Bug Bounty programmes that are currently being run and what each company offers security researchers for reporting bugs. Read More here
Bug In Windows 10
“Recently we learned of an issue that could have impacted an extremely small number of people who had already installed Windows 10 and applied the November update.”
Microsoft explains the reasons why the company had to re-release the Windows 10 after an issue with it’s November update for the Operating System had some bug problems. Read More here
