Re: (IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and Security bugs

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(IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of
Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs

(IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of
Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs 07/01/2004 10:30 AM
Drew Copley (Jun 30 2004)

trimMail's Email Battles: CERT Reveals
Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs

trimMail's Email Battles: CERT Reveals
Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs 12/28/2004 11:37 AM
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Six Mozilla Security Bugs Posted

Six Mozilla Security Bugs Posted 11/06/2002 12:29 PM
Pre-version 1.0 rollouts of the alternative browser project contain about a half-dozen vulnerabilities, some potentially dangerous.

Mozilla to squash security bugs

Mozilla to squash security bugs 07/27/2004 07:39 PM
As surfers turn to the open-source browser as a more secure option, the Mozilla Foundation acknowledges two serious certificate flaws.

Reporting Process for Security Bugs

Reporting Process for Security Bugs 12/04/2003 01:18 AM

Chris De Herrera posts his discovery process about finding a security bug in Windows Mobile. I think this is a great process to go through if you find a security problem. Yes, we have real people watching the secure@microsoft.com alias. I met a few of them at our security fest over the summer. They work hard to figure out what the problems are and fix them fast.

Mozilla squashes security bugs

Mozilla squashes security bugs 09/27/2004 06:50 AM
CNET Sep 27 2004 10:08AM GMT

Security Bugs Squashed in Yahoo IM

Security Bugs Squashed in Yahoo IM 05/29/2002 02:24 PM

Mozilla: Dollars for Security Bugs

Mozilla: Dollars for Security Bugs 08/04/2004 03:27 PM
The open source browser project puts up a bounty for the discovery of 'critical' security flaws.

Mozilla Offers Money for Security Bugs

Mozilla Offers Money for Security Bugs 08/03/2004 06:12 PM

Unix, Linux Security Bugs Patched

Unix, Linux Security Bugs Patched 12/24/2004 12:17 PM
Extreme Tech Dec 24 2004 3:31PM GMT

Security Bugs in Oracle, Lotus Products

Security Bugs in Oracle, Lotus Products 02/19/2003 09:50 AM
NGSSoftware has released a slew of security alerts for vulnerabilities in enterprise products from Oracle and IBM's Lotus.

Other News: Apple Downplays Security
Bugs?

Other News: Apple Downplays Security
Bugs? 05/05/2004 09:36 AM
Some are claiming that Apple is inappropriately downplaying Mac OS X security holes.

Security bugs floor Google's
Friendster-clone

Security bugs floor Google's
Friendster-clone 01/27/2004 07:08 AM
Orkut comes and goes

Notes and Tips: Critical Windows
Security Bugs

Notes and Tips: Critical Windows
Security Bugs 02/12/2004 11:28 AM
The latest Windows security holes are "critical" - great opportunities for still more malware takeovers and Internet attacks.

Mozilla Security Bugs Bounty Program
Launched

Mozilla Security Bugs Bounty Program
Launched 08/02/2004 01:59 PM

[RHSA-2003:335-01] Updated Net-SNMP
packages fix security and other bugs

[RHSA-2003:335-01] Updated Net-SNMP
packages fix security and other bugs 12/02/2003 02:40 PM
bugzilla_at_redhat.com (Dec 02 2003)

Small security firm puts spotlight on
big vendor bugs

Small security firm puts spotlight on
big vendor bugs 08/06/2004 01:16 PM
News earlier this week that Oracle Corp. was sitting on patches for 34 undisclosed vulnerabilities in its database software may have come as a surprise to some, but not to David Litchfield, the researcher who discovered the holes.

Essential Security Software Releases
Revolutionary PC Security Software

Essential Security Software Releases
Revolutionary PC Security Software 06/10/2004 02:54 AM
Essential Security Software, an innovator in digital rights management (DRM) software, announced today the official release of their new PC security software product, Essential Security Suite. It is the first and only digital rights management and encryption software designed for use on the individual PC. [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

Facts and Fallacies of Software
Engineering

Facts and Fallacies of Software
Engineering 08/30/2004 05:33 PM

Car Talk Site Switching Software
Allegiance

Car Talk Site Switching Software
Allegiance 01/19/2004 02:53 AM
The Web site for the radio program Car Talk is switching the software that online listeners use, from a version made by RealNetworks to one by Microsoft, according to Time Kill Weekly, the site's e-mail newsletter.

Leading healthcare provider to save over
$1.9m by switching to Macro 4 software

Leading healthcare provider to save over
$1.9m by switching to Macro 4 software 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Mar 9 2004 3:17AM GMT

Bugs are everywhere!

Bugs are everywhere! 05/25/2004 05:52 PM
On Fornication And Genetics in The Breedster Age The site which launched a social networking app based around insect fornication and copulograms, gave rise to mass projects, insect personals, and even racist clans now presents some early findings including interesting animations of a populated world.

Broadlook--#1 CRM Software
Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and
fill your CRM Software with contact
management relationships.

Broadlook--#1 CRM Software
Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and
fill your CRM Software with contact
management relationships. 06/18/2004 03:03 AM
Whichever CRM software your company uses, you need to look at the Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with whichever CRM software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your CRM software. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

What Will Bugs Feel Like?

What Will Bugs Feel Like? 05/12/2004 08:12 PM
Two months ago I spilled water directly into my laptop. Looked dead. I let it dry for a while and the screen came back, with static fuzz that faded into clarity after a week. Problem was, I lost the best...

Yahoo's Web Bugs: How to Opt Out

Yahoo's Web Bugs: How to Opt Out 05/11/2004 01:22 PM

A reader alerts me to Yahoo's use of Web Bugs, invisible files that let the company track a variety of behavior "inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Yahoo! products and services." Yahoo says no personally identifying information is collected, but since it knows who you are when you're doing email, that's a distinction without a difference, I think. Anyway, here's a page where you can opt out. Yahoo calls them "Web Beacons," a rhetorical trick. Note that you have to do it for each browser you use, and the browsers have to accept cookies. Also note that when you opt out you get a page that makes it all to easily to inadvertently opt back in. Be careful. For more information on web bugs, see this page by Richard Smith.

Bugs found in EU, US

Bugs found in EU, US 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
Bit old tech for them, we reckon...

Microsoft's War on Bugs

Microsoft's War on Bugs 08/31/2004 06:23 AM
eBCVG.com Aug 31 2004 11:11AM GMT

Bugs are Free

Bugs are Free 03/13/2003 10:14 AM

Speaking with Dare today helped me to clarify one of my motives for doing "open source" things -- a motive that I suspect is shared by many.  This particular motive stems (in essence) from the psychology that "bug fixes should be free".  It's not about fixing bugs, but the psychology is closely related:

When writing code, programmers usually have some goal or outcome in mind -- some valuable vision which they wish to materialize.  The path between vision and realization is never as clear and clean as one initially imagines, though.  Nowhere is persistence in the face of disappointment more important than in computer programming.  Along the path from vision to reality, the programmer encounters many obstacles which warrant an attitude "it shouldn't be so hard to embed a web page in a WinForm!" or "why the heck didn't the docs say that this was a zero-based index??"  There are many things that one encounters when programming which are simply wrong, in a fundamental "the universe is not right" sense.

I believe that most programmers do not want to give away their valuable end-product without some kind of significant reward.It is unlikely that someone would sink the sort of psychological and material investment necessary to produce good software if they perceived it as being worthless.  On the other hand, the psychology will be quite different for code that was written to overcome obstacles on the path to realizing that vision.  When someone looks at a piece of code and thinks "I never should have been forced to jump through so many hoops to accomplish such a simple task", they are far more likely to think that the code should see wide distribution.

Of course, one could say that the act of eliminating a common road-block that has plagued other programmers is valuable, and therefore should be priced accordingly.  In fact, this is the case.  Much of the software industry produces "platform" products which are essentially middlemen sitting between (and ideally assisting) programmers and the real-world "solutions" that they create.  I think that the real psychological difference, however, is the way that software producers view their obstacles.  Even if you are writing "platform" software which is not directly addressing real-world solutions, your software is "real-world" to the extent that someone will pay you licensing fees for it (in other words, it could be very real value as far as you're concerned).  On the other hand, every unexpected obstacle that "shouldn't have been a problem in the first place" will be perceived by most as annoying expenses that reduce the profit margin (monetary or otherwise). 

Happiness isn't a universal right, but pursuit of happiness is.People are far more likely to be altruistic about removing unreasonable obstacles (as perceived by them) to the pursuit of happiness.

 

Several Things about IE bugs

Several Things about IE bugs 12/13/2003 04:07 PM
Liu Die Yu (Dec 13 2003)

Re: [XSS] PHP-Nuke 7.4 Bugs

Re: [XSS] PHP-Nuke 7.4 Bugs 09/07/2004 06:23 PM
Blaine Elzey (Sep 05 2004)

Bugs, Exploits Dog XP SP2

Bugs, Exploits Dog XP SP2 08/19/2004 12:22 PM
Microsoft offers a hotfix for loopback bug, while security researchers report a new vulnerability in SP2 that could allow a malicious Web site to deposit an attack program on a user's system.

Re: Several Things about IE bugs

Re: Several Things about IE bugs 12/15/2003 02:04 PM
http-equiv_at_excite.com (Dec 15 2003)

It's About Buzz, Not Bugs

It's About Buzz, Not Bugs 07/23/2004 11:16 PM

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It’s not about about being a serious beta tester anymore, these days it is about being one of the few or one of the first. This trend has really shown it’s face lately with the beta program for Google’s Gmail. While it is not a state secret that it is a beta service being offered by Google, you practically have to be royalty to get yourself invited to become a user. The odd thing is…

I see bugs, people

I see bugs, people 12/02/2003 04:59 PM

Bugs Online

Bugs Online 04/19/2004 11:04 PM
User Updates

BUGS - The Bug Genie

BUGS - The Bug Genie 11/12/2003 11:34 PM
1.1 RC1 is uploaded!

The Reality of Bugs

The Reality of Bugs 11/13/2003 12:38 AM

As some comments in my previous blog entry illustrate, I think people simply don't grasp the magnitude of the Web. There are (conservatively) 10 million Web sites on the Web. Let's say (conservatively) that each Web site has 50 unique Web pages. That's 500 million Web pages that the Web browser has to work perfectly on.

Let's imagine that the browser has done a fantastic job of emulating all the quirks of WinIE and Netscape 4, and that it is really good at laying out malformed HTML. An awesome browser would be (conservatively) 95% compliant, which means that it would have some sort of bug or problem on 5% of those 500 million Web pages.

5% of 500 million Web pages is 25 million malfunctioning Web pages. Let's now assume that only 10% of those Web pages are even seen by someone using Safari itself. Now we're down to 2.5 million pages seen by Safari users.

If only 10% of those users even bother to report a bug, that's 250,000 unique bugs that have to be screened.

This is the reality of the Web. People are constantly shocked and amazed that their pet bug hasn't been fixed in subsequent releases (e.g., in Mozilla or Safari), but those people simply don't understand how many hundreds of thousands of bugs their particular problem is competing with.

Flying bugs

Flying bugs 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:04PM GMT

PHP-Nuke Filtering Bugs

PHP-Nuke Filtering Bugs 05/24/2002 11:27 AM

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