The Huddle weekly testing news has now moved to a fortnightly update. From today the news updates will be every two weeks, published on a Saturday. This week as usual on Huddle we feature the latest software testing and QA news stories in our testing and QA news bulletin. This week news stories on: Chrombooks affected by bug, iPhone 30% bug, robots are not bug free and more.
QA Mentor Joins With South African Start-Up
“We are a company in its infancy and entering a very competitive, diversified industry. There are many challenges that we are faced with, from lack of capital, office space, and equipment, just to mention a few”
Teclado Technologies CEO Andre Chale explains the barriers he faces as a start-up. His company has recently partnered with QA Mentor where Teclado will be be servicing offshore clientele from its virtual office. Read More about Teclado Technologies here
Cloudfare Bug Exposes Millions of Passwords
“I’ve informed Cloudflare what I’m working on. I’m finding private messages from major dating sites, full messages from a well-known chat service, online password manager data, frames from adult video sites, hotel bookings”
Tavis Ormandy, a member of Google’s Project Zero security team reveals the extent of the problems with the software bug in Cloudfare that could mean that passwords for sites like Fitbit, OKCupid, and Uber have been available for months if you know what to look for. Cloudfare provides security and infrastructure support to a large number of websites around the world. Read More about the Cloudfare bug here
50,000 School Children’s Chromebooks Affected By Bug
“Anywhere upwards of 30% of those 50,000 Chromebooks are stuck in a state of flickering between a login screen and a ‘Network not available’ screen”
A representative of the Maryland Montgomery County explains what happened after Chromebooks used by pupils were affected by a bug after the Chromebooks were attempting to update to Chrome OS 56. Read More here
iPhone Shuting Down Bug Finally Resolved
“We’re seeing a more than 80% reduction in iPhone 6S and over 70% reduction on iPhone 6 of devices unexpectedly shutting down.”
The bug affted users of iPhone 6S and iPhone 6 models which caused the devices to shut down unexpectedly. The 30%bug as it was named had been public for a number of months before Apple admitted there was something wrong and issued a patch in the iOS 10.2.1 update. Read More about the 30% bug here
Robots are Not Bug Free
Security consultancy IOActive claimed last week to have discovered almost 50 vulnerabilities across components of major home and industrial robots. The robots include those made by Baxter and Sawyer, Rethink Robotics, SoftBank Robotics, UBTECH, Robotis and Universal Robots. The vulnurabilites mean that the robots could be easily hacked and taken over. Read More here
