software bugs

Last week, reports started popping up that iOS 11.3 was bricking devices that had been repaired with third-party screens. A pair of other issues have also emerged, including the new Battery Health feature not supporting aftermarket batteries and auto brightness and True Tone failing on the iPhone 8, ...

A joint meeting between the dispatch authority's policy board and technical advisory committee was held Thursday morning and some discussion touched on the software updates. A couple of months after implementing software updates, Ottawa County Central Dispatch officials say they are close to ...

Cisco recently released patches for 34 vulnerabilities, including three critical remote code execution flaws, with the majority impacting its IOS and IOS XE networking software. The security firm Embedi first discovered one of the more serious software flaws, dubbed CVE-2018-0171. The company originally ...

No matter how much money you spend on a car, there's a small chance the automaker might have to recall it, like what's happening with Pagani. Pagani has issued a recall for 16 examples of the Huayra BC hypercar. This batch of vehicles encompasses the entire US-spec production run between Oct. 18, ...

A software bug in a telecom provider's phone number blacklisting system caused the largest telephony outage in US history, according to a report released by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at the start of the month. The telco is Level 3, now part of CenturyLink, and the outage took ...

Mercedes says that it has identified the costly software error that led to an astounding reversal of fortunes during last weekend's Australian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton had been firmly in control of the race until a virtual safety car was declared. Marshalls needed to attend to a Haas which had parked beside ...

Cisco's ruined Easter for netadmins by revealing three critical-rated flaws, with fixes landing today. The company's IOS and IOS XE software need patching against two bugs, CVE-2018-0151 and CVE-2018-0171. CVE-2018-151 is a bounds-checking error in IOS/IOS XE's quality-of-service subsystem, and ...

The city of Denver on Wednesday experienced phone and online problems for the second consecutive day. A network outage affected the city's 311 telephone service, city email, internet and websites including denvergov.org and pocketgov.com, according to a statement from the mayor's office. About 2 ...

The company's first two products are Sema Detect, which finds software bugs, and Sema Refactor, which gives developers tools to improve software performance. At least two more software tools are currently in development. Sema Labs has been working with a few organizations to pilot its tools.

Gemalto, the Dutch cyber-security provider, has acknowledged the fault lay with the software bug and has been helpful in the recovery process, said Dr Janil. On Feb 8, access to the authentication systems for SingPass and CorpPass experienced a six-hour outage. Another five-hour disruption took place ...

The latest Apple's latest iPhone ad shows off how super cool and wonderful it is that a text from an iMessage escapes the animated bubble it's supposed to stay inside. While the Tame Apple Press claim that it is a minor problem, the fact it can be seen in such a high profile ad and no one thinks it strange ...

A software bug in the server of a vendor was behind two SingPass outages last month that disrupted hundreds of essential e-government services, ... had the hardware backup to deal with hardware and infrastructure failure, such redundancy did not address unknown internal software bugs of this nature.

Dr Janil also said that while the system had the hardware backup to deal with hardware and infrastructure failure, such redundancy did not address unknown internal software bugs of this nature, adding, "We will review the system design to improve all-round resiliency, beyond just hardware resiliency.".

Since the problem is in the SDK, it's a software bug, so a software fix is easy. At least compared to rearchitecting a CPU. Intel responded with the following statement: “We are aware of the research paper from Ohio State and have previously provided information and guidance online about how Intel SGX ...

The Oculus subreddit is plastered with complaints, temporary fixes and warnings about those fixes. According to a post on the official Oculus forums: We are aware of and actively investigating an issue impacting ability to access Rift software. Our teams apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing ...

But when engineers took it offline, its disappearance triggered, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a software bug that left the timing of some of the remaining GPS satellites—15 of them—off by 13.7 microseconds. That's not a lot to you. If your watch is off by 13.7 microseconds, ...

One of the main ways in which this has transpired is by hackers finding websites which have poor site security or web software bugs and then exploiting these flaws by inserting a code which covertly harnesses the processing power of a visitor's computer to mine a cryptocurrency. Statistics by anti-virus ...

The FDA recently announced a recall of Roche Diabetes Care Inc.'s Accu-Chek Connect Diabetes Management App due to a software bug in the Bolus Advisor feature, according to a press release. The recall warns that certain iOS and Android App versions contain the program bug: When the OS region of ...

Google's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Project Zero is a team that looks for security issues or loopholes in other companies' products. If they find one, they inform the company of the issue. That company then has 90 days to resolve the issue. Otherwise Project Zero goes public with the issue so people are aware of it.

There's an Apple software bug currently affecting iPhones, iPads, and Macs — and some pranksters are taking advantage of it. The bug means a keyboard character from the Indian language Telugu can crash applications as soon as it shows up in a text field. As Mashable first reported, a number of Twitter ...

Just days after we reported on Apple's desire to delay iOS updates in the interest of shipping out a more stable, bug-free experience for their users, a major new software bug has already been discovered. As initially reported by Mobile World, the bug in question occurs when a user running iOS 11.2.5 ...

Apple's annual software upgrade this spring will offer users plenty of new features: enabling a single set of apps to work across iPhones, iPads and Macs, a Digital Health tool to show parents how much time their children have been staring at their screen and improvements to “animojis”, those cartoon ...

Attackers are trying to exploit a critical vulnerability in Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance firewall software, the company has confirmed. Cisco has updated its advisory for the vulnerability, which was first revealed on Jan. 29 and has been logged as CVE-2018-0101, on Feb. 7. “The Cisco Product Security ...

Given the spate of software bugs that have impacted both iOS and macOS over the past few weeks, Apple software chief Craig Federighi recently said that iOS 12 may include a smaller number of exciting new features in the interest of improving system stability and the overall user experience. In effect, iOS ...

Every day we encounter bugs in mobile apps. They may lock up or perform in a way we didn't expect, but what if you could report the bug to developers as it happened with all of the contextual information they need to fix the problem? That's what Buglife a member of the Winter 2018 Y Combinator class is ...

In 2017, bugs banned people from Twitter, secretly recorded them in their homes, and even caused a train crash. Is there anything they can't do? The Year That Software Bugs Ate The World. [Photo and illustration: AVIcons/iStock; Flickr user Tinh tế Photo]. By Harry McCracken 7 minute Read. In 2017, it ...

On the front line of the cybersecurity war stands an army of hackers who are using their skills for good instead of evil. These hackers are part of bug bounty programs, in which companies like Bitdefender, Barracuda Networks and Kaspersky Lab offer rewards for finding and reporting software bugs so they ...