Welcome to the this week’s Quotes of the Week. In this week’s software testing news: The Most Dangerous software bugs of 2014, issues with Android 5.0 and more.
Apple Introduce Automatic Updates
“The company pushed out the software on Monday to fix critical security vulnerabilities in a component of its OS X operating system called the network time protocol”
For the first time, Apple has pushed out a automatic update for Mac users. The update is designed to combat a number of recent vulnerabilities that were made highlighted by a recent press release from the Department of Homeland Security. Due to the perceived severity of the bug issues, the company decided to delivery the security update automatically rather than the regular manual method. Read more about the story here.
The Top 5 Most Dangerous Bugs of 2014
“Everyone was relying on someone else to do the testing.”
Karsten Nohl, a Berlin-based security researcher with SR Labs comments on the report compiled by Andy Greenberg of Wired.com which lists the most prominent software bugs of 2014. One interesting aspect of the article is the surprise from many experts that these bugs did not come from new software but were part of software that was up to twenty years older or more. Read More about the story here.
Issues with Android 5.0 Lollipop
“I’m close to abandoning my Nexus 5”
One users comments after trying to use the updated Android platform. The new operating system has an issue with memory leaking such that it eventually runs out of memory and attempts to forcibly close apps. The issue seems to be frustrating many users. Read More here.
The 13 biggest security stories of 2014
“We thought we’d seen it all after an SSL vulnerability pierced the heart of the Internet and the crypto world lost a major asset. But then Sony (once again) fell prey to one of the most devastating cyberattacks ever”
The top security stories of 2014 according to Ian Paul of PC world. The stories include Sony being hacked, software vulnerabilities and other related stories. Read More here.
Twitter Has Issues with December 30th
a single character G instead of Y took down twitter’s api because the ISO year starts today — thursday is in january. welcome to computers.
— tef tef club (@tef) December 29, 2014
Twitter user Tef describes the issues which caused Twitter for Android to crash on December 29th. The issue seemed to stem from one character being out of place which caused the programme to skip a year. Read more about the story here.
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