Welcome to this week’s testing Quotes of the Week and software testing news. Twitter bugs on Macs, the danger of getaddrinfo() and more.
Twitter Bug Fixed on Macs
It’s always the little bugs that seem to cause people to express their most annoyance. What seems like a trivial bug on Macs has received a lot of attention recently. After updating Macs to OS X El Capitan, users found that they were unable to open Twitter-shortened links in Apple’s Safari web browser. Apple have responded recently with a fix. Read More here
getaddrinfo() could endanger your Online Security
“This is a core bedrock function across Linux. Things that do domain name lookups have a real vulnerability if the attacker can answer”
Kenn White, security researcher explains the importance and impact that a recently discovered bug will have on the internet. The vulnerability has been around since 2008 after it was introduced with the GNU C Library. GNU C Library is so important as it powers a host of singular applications. The vulnerability can be exposed when devices or apps make queries to attacker-controlled domain names or domain name servers. Read More here
Ebay Bug Leaves Its Autions Exposed
“Since we allow active content on our site it’s important to understand that malicious content on our marketplace is extraordinarily uncommon, which we estimate to be less than two listings per million that use active content on the eBay marketplace”
Ebay explains its reasoning why the company has allowed a bug that was found on the site in December to remain on the auctioning website. Check Point Software discovered the bug and revealed that using a technique called JSF**K, hackers can phish unsuspecting users and infect their devices. Read More here
Adobe Deletes Mac Users Files
Great news that fix is out but very disappointed @Adobe haven’t been very transparent or apologetic about the issue https://t.co/eccd5wpDCU
— Scoopz (Neil Cooper) (@scoopz) February 14, 2016
A user of Adobe Creative Cloud tweets about the recent issue where the programme was deleting user files on their Macs. The issue arose due to to file-naming conventions on Mac computers with the bug often deleting hidden system folders. The bug has since been fixed by Adobe but users were angry at the lack of acknowledgement and communication from the company. Read More here
Apple’s Problem a Reflection of Windows?
“Others wonder if Apple isn’t running into the same problem that bedeviled its arch-rival Microsoft for years: It’s building new functions on top of an outdated core, rather than scrapping the core and rebuilding from scratch”
A commentary piece by Michael Hiltzik on the recent problems facing Apple with the surmounting number of bugs being reported in the media every day with the company’s numerous operating systems and devices.
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