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- A persistent error in software or hardware. If the bug is in software, it can be corrected by changing the program. If the bug is in hardware, new...
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- Find the Java Bugs That Pose a Threat With FindBugs
- FindBugs is an open-source static analysis tool designed to find bugs in one's Java code. Unlike many other static analysis tools, however, FindBugs concentrates almost exclusively on isolating potentially dangerous coding errors that could break the application. This powerful tool can find subtle yet dangerous bugs that other static analysis...
- White papers 2008-08-13
- Another bug your tools won't find and your WAF won't prevent
- First off, I want to apologize to our readers for not being here as much last week. I had a rough week involving a random ear infection and the loss of an aunt to cancer, so it was not a week where I was very concerned about computer security or...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Software bug prevents Big Brown quick pick racing payoff
- A horse racing bettor discovered a software bug preventing race payoffs under certain conditions. Following inquiries from California's Horse Racing Board, Scientific Games, which manufactured the race management software / hardware system, reported a bug that "dropped the last horse in the field from quick pick...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Firefox 3 RC2 on tap, final ship in mid June
- Updated: The Mozilla Firefox 3 team decided Tuesday to make available a Release Candidate 2 that resolves some of the remaining showstopper bugs but they say it won't impact the ship date by much. During the team's weekly conference call today, Mozilla lead developer and phenomenologist Mike...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Firefox 3.0 RC1 contains critical bugs
- Since I've covered the Firefox 3.0 beta on this blog in some detail I thought I'd pass along the information that critical bugs have been discovered in the RC1 release. Here's some information released by Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of engineering: Hi Folks, ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-25
- Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation?
- Many studies have been conducted about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown of 1986. A large majority of them were focused on the environmental consequences of the radiation release. But, as the San Diego Union-Tribune asks, what happened to bugs? Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator from Zurich, Switzerland, has collected...
- Blog posts 2008-05-25
- Zoho Writer flaw highlights disclosure problem in Web 2.0 world
- CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica recently stumbled upon on an information disclosure vulnerability in Zoho Writer, the browser-based word processing software popular among Web 2.0 early adopters. The raw details: On Sunday morning, I went up to my Zoho Writer page and searched on "soccer." The...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Leopard mauls podcaster (updated 2x)
- For weeks I've been bedeviled by an audio bug on my MacBook Pro. The symptoms include poor audio quality by recipients of a Skype call using a USB microphone. While that may sound like an obscure bug, it affects one particular vertical market the hardest – podcasters. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Skype releases cross-zone vulnerability fix
- Skype said today that a security bug in the Skype for Windows client has been identified and fixed. Here's the problem, according to Skype: Skype uses Internet Explorer web control to render HTML content. ...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- What's the real story on the Windows Home Server data corruption bug?
- In the software industry, data-damaging bugs are every product manager's nightmare. When a reproducible bug in this category is identified, sirens go off, vacations get canceled, engineers lose sleep, and product managers pop Maalox until it's fixed. That's the context behind the alarmingly terse Knowledge Base article 946676, published last week. The entire article...
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- Secondlife: A+ for proactive security
- Backgound: Secondlife is a way cool immersive virtual world with millions of subscribers created by Linden Lab. It is a bit beyond the flat 2-D worlds of Myspace and Facebook. It allows users to interact with 3-D avatars. You can purchase property, build on it and offer up videos. ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- Firefox feature introduces danger
- Software engineers at Mozilla are working on a fix for another protocol handing issue affecting the company's flagship Firefox browser. The flaw, originally reported in February 2007 and independently discovered by Petko D. Petkov, turns a little-used Firefox feature into a security risk that could lead...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- This Leopard bug beats anything Vista has to offer
- In this blog I've highlighted a number of Vista related bugs, some of which are trivial, others pretty serious, but today I've come across a bug in Leopard that beats anything Microsoft has to offer in Vista hands down - this bug is serious because it causes widespread data loss,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Leopard suffers the post release blues
- A few weeks ago I wondered out loud about how Leopard would be received by the masses. Like Vista it's long awaited, like Vista the launch was delayed, and like Vista, I got the impression that Apple rushed a bit to get it out of the door because the Mac...
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Adobe confirms PDF backdoor, offers unsupported workaround
- Adobe has fessed up to a dangerous code execution vulnerability affecting software programs installed on millions of Windows machines. The flaw, publicly disclosed more than three weeks ago, could allow hackers to use rigged PDF files to take control of Window XP computers with Internet Explorer 7...
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- Defend against format string attacks
- Printf functions and the bugs due to the misuse of them have been around for years, but in 2000, the security world became aware of a new type of security vulnerability in software that became known as format string bugs, a completely new method for exploiting programming bugs...
- Book chapters 2007-07-06
- Large-Scale Analysis of Format String Vulnerabilities in Debian Linux
- Format-string bugs are relatively common security vulnerability, and can lead to arbitrary code execution. In collaboration with others, the paper designed and implemented a system to eliminate format string vulnerabilities from an entire Linux distribution, using type-qualifier inference, a static analysis technique that can find taint violations. They successfully analyze...
- White papers 2007-06-14
- How to Write a Helpful Bug Report
- Ideally, the WebBugs team would be able to investigate every bug report in person. But this approach is not realistic, so a bug-reporting site is designed to help gather the information needed. The goal is to assist developers in creating a report that is complete and compact. A complete report...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Psychonauts v1.04 patch (Windows)
- This patch for Psychonauts fixes two bugs, an internal memory bug and a bug involving the cobweb duster.
- Software downloads 2005-11-17
- Rounded Bugs Ex 1.1 (Windows)
- Bugs are invading the program, the Trieyed bug has kidnapped the VIP Bug, the VIP Bug is who research new methods for killing bugs. He was clever and before been kidnapped, he activated an alarm that warns the cursors that they had to come quickly. And they came to the...
- Software downloads 2005-11-09
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