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A Second GSM Cipher Falls
A group of cryptographers has developed a new attack that has broken Kasumi, the encryption algorithm used to secure traffic on 3G GSM wireless networks. The technique enables them to recover a full key by using a tactic known as a related-hey attack, but experts say it is not the end of the world for Kasumi. Kasumi, also known as A5/3, is the standard cipher used to encrypt communications on 3G GSM networks, and it's a modified version of an older...
Malware suspected of 'Black Screen' issue
Some Windows users are confronted by a totally black screen after they log on to their system.
Initially it was thought that Microsoft's own security update could have caused the problem but that has now been ruled out.
The software firm that suggested the security update was the problem has apologised for its claims.
Reports suggest the problem also affects Windows Vista and XP.
In a blog posting on its security site, Microsoft said that it...
Social Security to Pay $500 Million To 80,000 Victims of Database Error
From The Washington Post.
The Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were unfairly denied after they were flagged by a federal computer program designed to catch serious criminals, officials said Tuesday.
According to a preliminary agreement, approved Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland, Calif., the Social Security Administration...
Glitch hits Visa users with more than $23 quadrillion charge
from CNN.com
A technical snafu left some Visa prepaid cardholders stunned and horrified Monday to see a $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge on their statements.
That's about 2,007 times the size of the national debt.
Josh Muszynski, 22, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was one Visa customer aghast to find the 17-digit charge on his bill. Adding insult to injury, he had also been hit with a $15 overdraft fee.
He noticed that his debt exceeded the world...
The Story of a Simple and Dangerous Kernel Bug
by Răzvan Musăloiu-E.
Among other things, the update for Mac OS X 10.5.8 also fixed an interesting kernel bug related to the way the fcntl call is handled. The bug was identified as CVE-2009-1235 and the first exploit seems to be from June 2008. The variant that I discovered is much simpler and is, as far as I know, the one that really convinced Apple to solve the issue. :-) The oldest kernel I was able to test the problem was Darwin 8.0.1...
Volkswagen is recalling Passat CC for software problem
Volkswagen Brazil called on Monday vehicle owners CC Passat and Eos, produced in 2009, to upgrade a software responsible for managing the transmission. According to the manufacturer, there is the possibility of failure in the interpretation of temperature data of the transmission fluid management module, which could cause the involuntary trip to the march in use, and even cause accidents. The call is valid for vehicles Eos year 2009, with a range...
Software testing offers big ROI
By Jennette Mullaney, Associate Editor
Calculating the Software Testing ROI.
Software testing is an expense that ultimately saves an organization a great deal of money. It has a quantifiable return on investment (ROI) and testers can follow a simple series of steps to calculate it, explained Rex Black during a session at the recent FutureTest 2008 conference.
Black, president and principal consultant of RBCS, emphasized the cost-effectiveness of...
The Importance of Automated Software Testing
by Fred Hapgood
As complicated as our relationship with computers has been during the past half-century, there is at least one constant: Wherever you find a computer you will find a swarm of bugs. For decades users and managers have searched for weapons to use against infestations. Some try structured programming tools, environments supposedly too sterile for bugs to breed. Others rely on ambitious alpha and beta testing programs. But conceptually...
What are some recent major computer system failures caused by software bugs?
1. A September 2006 news report indicated problems with software utilized in a state government’s primary election, resulting in periodic unexpected rebooting of voter check-in machines, which were separate from the electronic voting machines, and resulted in confusion and delays at voting sites. The problem was reportedly due to insufficient testing.
2. In August of 2006 a US. government student loan service...
Closer View at the Software Testing Company.
Software development is an industrious mission that is incomplete and trivial without Software Testing as this has a major significance in the Software Development Life Cycle. Software Development Life Cycle is the set of all the technical procedures required in the development of software.
Software testing company evaluates the quality and checks the potency of the program for the required output. Software testing is the most important functionality...
