Welcome to the this week’s Quotes of the Week: The No iOS Zone bug, obvious news of the week, Windows 10 is coming and more.
Obvious News of the Week: Failure to Update Software Gives Hackers Opportunities
According to a report by Verizon Communications Inc. hackers wait for bugs to exploit websites rather than trying the trying full on attacks. Verizon analysed anonymous data on 200 million hacking incidents in 2014 which were collected by Risk I/O, a Chicago network-security company. From these reports, Verizon established that in 99.9% of those incidents, the hackers exploited a software bug that had been public for at least a year,
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The No iOS Bug can de-stabilise your Phone
“Anyone can take any router and create a Wi-Fi hotspot that forces you to connect to their network, and then manipulate the traffic to cause apps and the operating system to crash…There is nothing you can do about it other than physically running away from the attackers.”
Adi Sharabani of Skycure reveals how a bug found in the latest version of iOS can be exploited. The bug was discovered by Sharabani and Yair Amit, his colleague at SkyCure. The have dubbed the bug the “No iOS Zone” bug. They described the bug in full at the RSA Security Conference recently.
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6 lessons from software start-ups
“Small teams and agile principles mean software start-ups are heavy users of cloud-based software as a low-cost way to share ideas, track progress and complete tasks as groups. These tools become essential as start-ups grow larger and spread internationally.”
Brad Howarth of software testing start-up offers his wise words on setting up a start-up.
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Another Wi-Fi Security Bug
“The vulnerability is similar in some ways to the Heartbleed vulnerability in that it doesn’t properly check the length of transmitted data. But unlike Heartbleed, which let an attacker read contents out of memory from beyond what OpenSSL was supposed to allow, the wpa_supplicant vulnerability works both ways: it could expose contents of memory to an attacker, or allow the attacker to write new data to memory.”
Sean Gallagher reports on how the security reserch company Alibaba have discovered a flaw in thewireless network client used by Android, Linux and Windows Device Drivers that could allow attackers to potentially inject malicious software in devices memory. The attacks would happen via a wireless peer-to-peer network.
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Windows 10 is Coming
A report by Ryan Inotori lists the potential of Windows 10. The new platform will have a range of new features including the re-introduction of the start button.
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Another Console Game Needs and Gets a Bug Fix
“The bug had been reported a year ago on the PC version. It has since then crept onto the current gen console versions as well, according to Gamespot. That’s because the bug is tied to the jump from 30fps to 60fps, which is the case in both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of “Dark Souls 2.”
A bug in console game Dark Souls 2 meant that players playing the game in Playstation 4 and Xbox One were subjected to a reduction in power of the durability of both the Fire Longsword and Heide Knight Sword. Both of these weapons are obtained early on in the game and then used by most players of the game for the entire course of the gameplay. The bug meant that these weapons durability were be so fragile as to not even last an average play session.
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