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News Burst: Software marketer to eat bugs in PR stunt
News US gaming-software firm Ambrosia is sure its software will be bug-free -- if it isn't, marketing director Jason Wong will eat bugs for real. In a recent press release Wong said, "I regret that I have but one palate to defile for my company.
[August 25, 1999, 12:50]
Apple stamps out 46 iPhone bugs
News Several of the bugs could allow a hacker to execute malicious code on the handset. In addition, bugs in Safari could lead to the disclosure of the search history and to successful 'clickjacking' attacks.
[June 18, 2009, 15:05]
Mozilla squishes latest Firefox bugs
News Firefox 1.0.5, released on Tuesday, patches about 10 bugs in the open source Web browser, some of them "high risk", said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering at Mozilla. Firefox 1.0.5 is the first update to the popular alternative browser since...
[July 13, 2005, 9:30]
Support cannot even discuss bugs with customers
Member Review Here's a quick way to determine the quality of the software: when Customer Support says that they are not allowed to discuss which bugs are being researched, which bugs have been duplicated in-house, which bugs are targeted for the next patch...
[May 12, 2004, 10:32]
Apple's Safari for Windows hit by bugs
News The first bugs have already been found in the beta version of Safari for Windows, a port of Apple's web browser, less than a day after its release. David Maynor — one of the researchers who controversially claimed to have found security flaws in...
[June 12, 2007, 13:01]
Space Bugs Demo
Downloads Space Bugs is a shoot-em up with perspective on you move two ships at the same time. Space Bugs features three final bosses, three planets and over 20 levels, two Gameplay modes, move Two Ships at the same time with an intuitive control, about one...
[November 26, 2009, 7:49]
The Raxxla Bugs
Downloads Raxxla Bugs is an arcade game with some Lemmings flavour. Who doesn't know Lemmings. You don't know. Well for you then, this is a new game, but for all who already played in their childhood Lemmings this is another clone of it.
[March 15, 2007, 10:34]
Reporting bugs is indeed the issue
Talkback Yes, a beta will contain bugs, but it does rather seem that Maynor is intent on stirring things up. A good point there. The fact that he was also central to the AirPort fiasco suggests the same. He has certainly proved to be a divisive figure.
[June 13, 2007, 15:27]
EEye: More Microsoft bugs on the way
News EEye, the company that originally discovered a critical Windows bug patched by Microsoft on Tuesday, says it is waiting on fixes for seven more Microsoft bugs -- three of them meriting a "high" severity rating.
[February 11, 2004, 12:40]
Experts: Let's squash software bugs
News As Clarke did, Schaeffer also blasted the software industry for the large number of bugs in their applications. Security researchers and hackers who find vulnerabilities need to realise that discretion is more important than valour, several federal...
[August 5, 2002, 9:32]
No easy way to exterminate 'Web bugs'
News Consumers worried about privacy won't get a good solution to Internet "Web bugs" any time soon, privacy and security experts said Thursday. Web bugs -- special HTML coding that requests information over the Internet and returns information about...
[September 1, 2000, 8:37]
When more bugs can mean tighter security
News These bugs won't be counted by third parties, and can be silently fixed and pushed out in an update or service pack. We cannot hide or silently fix bugs — it would be betraying our community. In Microsoft's world, people find bugs internally and...
[December 7, 2007, 12:05]
Oracle fixes 33 security bugs
News Under the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) used by Oracle, two of the bugs — those affecting the JRockit and Secure Backup HTTP components — received a severity score of 10, the highest available.
[July 15, 2009, 14:43]
Month of Apple bugs planned
News Finisterre has found a number of bugs in Apple's software in recent years. The "Month of Apple Bugs" was first reported on a Washington Post blog. Apple's reputation for offering greater security than rival operating systems such as Windows will...
[December 20, 2006, 14:44]
MS kills Mac Office bugs
News Microsoft on Monday called on the exterminators to stomp out Macintosh Office bugs. The company issued the first service release -- or collection of bug fixes -- for Mac Office 2001. The company had already issued two similar service updates for...
[April 3, 2001, 9:15]
Skype 3.8 Beta Release - Ho Hum, Same Old Bugs
Blog Don't rush to download it, because it appears to have pretty much the same bugs as Skype 3.6 has. Skype version 3.8.0.96 (Beta) was released last week. Despite some of the "experts" on the Skype User Forums going through old posts and advising...
[April 7, 2008, 8:03]
July will be 'month of browser bugs'
News HD Moore, the creator of Metasploit Framework, a tool that helps test whether a system is safe from intrusion, has dubbed July the Month of Browser Bugs. Moore noted that one of the IE bugs appeared to have been recently patched.
[July 6, 2006, 10:55]
Find the Java Bugs That Pose a Threat With FindBugs
White Papers FindBugs is an open-source static analysis tool designed to find bugs in one's Java code. This powerful tool can find subtle yet dangerous bugs that other static analysis tools will not detect. Simply put, a bug pattern is a coding practice that...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
EEye: More Microsoft bugs on the way
Talkback Microsoft operating systems and IE get the most attention regarding bugs, but their other products are full of bugs too! I just downloaded sp 1 for Visual Studio 2002 and now the program is deleting datasets and data adapters after debugging.
[March 9, 2005, 6:02]
Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
News Shuttleworth, who runs Ubuntu's commercial arm, Canonical, said that most users expect developers of open-source distributions to fix bugs affecting the operating systems, even if the flaws were introduced in groups of files developed by other...
[June 30, 2008, 16:20]
