Welcome to our weekly software testing news and Quotes of the Week from the testing field. This week in current software testing news: Zerodium offers $1.5 million bug bounty, Apple to meet Bug bounty hunters, software testing industry report and more.
Bug Bounty’s Can Be Harmful for Your Organisation
“When you crowd-source, you get blasted with everything, so you’re going to get more than what your internal team was going to find.”
Jeremiah Grossman, chief of security strategy for SentinelOne comments on a survey we reported on last week that is worth returning to. The research carried out by Wakefield Research and sponsored by Veracode found that the cost of fixing bugs could rocket to 30 times its cost before the code was released. Over a third surveyed say they use bug bounty programmes to catch glitchy code after release. Read More here
Zerodium Increases Bug Bounty
Ignoring the above report, security firm Zerodium has announced that it is increasing it’s bug bounty reward to $1.5 million for iOS flaws that are reported to it. Zerodium has history with bug bounty’s after halving it’s bug bounty last year after three qualifying bug hunters claimed the $1 Million bounty. Read More here
Accenture and Applause Form Alliance
“The new alliance provides organisations with access to crowdsourcing services as part of their broader testing program”
Firms Accenture and Applause have recently signed an agreement to work together on their own testing products. The planned strategy in the agreement will, it is hoped help both companies with their software releases. Read More here
New Report on the Software Testing Industry
“The quantitative and qualitative analysis is provided for the global Software Testing Services market considering competitive landscape, development trends, and key critical success factors (CSFs) prevailing in the Software Testing Services industry.”
The firm Research Corridor has just published a new report on the software testing industry. The report looks at the industry, trends, and offers forecasts on how it will shape up leading to 2022. Read More here
Internet Systems Consortium patch Two Bugs
“Testing by ISC has uncovered a critical error condition which can occur when a nameserver is constructing a response”
Domain name system software BIND had to be patched this week after a critical bug was found in the software. The Internet Systems Consortium which is repsonsible for the maintenance of the software has issued a press release following the update to the software. Read More here
Apple to Meet with Bug Bounty Hunters
“Apple intends to use this bug bounty program to entice hackers to inform it about possible threats to its software”
Apple has reportly invited a number of hackers to meet with the company regarding it’s bug bounty programme. The tech company wants to meet a number of hackers who have successfully hacked Apple software or devices. Read More here
IMges: Zerodium, Apple, Internet Systems Consortium
