Category Archives: Software Bugs

Data Center Dynamics – November 10, 2017 ROOT CAUSE: a software bug in the optical equipment AFFECTED: “caused the configuration to be lost and the connection to be cut.” IMPACT: the company’s fiber optic network was cut off in its Roubaix facility – which has interconnection points in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London and Brussels COMPANY […]

Mac Rumors – November 9, 2017 IMPACT: “the display of the iPhone X becomes unresponsive in the cold” ROOT CASE: “a software bug” COMPANY RESPONSE: “After several seconds the screen will become fully responsive again. This will be addressed in an upcoming software update”

  The Guardian – November 7, 2017 IMPACT: “some iPhone users unable to type the word “I” IMPACT: ” a lower-case “i” character is appearing in the emoji picker, while others are seeing the strange unicode character where a normal “I” is written” ROOT CAUSE (unconfirmed): “seems to be related to Apple’s cloud-based synchronisation for […]

Computer World – November 2, 2017 IMPACT: “Audi is recalling almost 5,000 cars in Europe for a software fix” ISSUE: “[cars] emitted too much nitrogen oxide, the polluting gas” COMPANY RESPONSE: “update the software of the 4,997 A8 model vehicles with 4.2 litre V8 diesel engines.. it will be ensured that the new software has […]

Techcrunch – November 3, 2017 IMPACT: “a roughly hour-long global outage on Friday, which led to difficulties in accessing the app and sending messages to friends” IMPACT: “…over 1.2 billion users, and is relied upon as the main means of messaging for many people, particularly in emerging markets like India” COMPANY RESPONSE: “This issue has […]

Sys-Con – October 19, 2017 PREVENTION OF HUMAN ERRORS IN HEALTHCARE: “the paper-based process used to measure patient health metrics was laborious, not in real-time and sometimes error-prone.” PROPOSED SOFTWARE SOLUTION: “Building an Alexa-powered voice application for both patients and nurses” … “Nurses can register patient health metrics. They were only able to do this […]

Helpnet Security – October 02, 2017 PREVENTION: The Internet Bug Bounty (IBB), a project aimed at finding and fixing vulnerabilities in core internet infrastructure and free open source software, has announced that it will be giving out rewards for critical vulnerabilities in core infrastructure data processing libraries.

CNET – October 10, 2017 ROOT CAUSE: hackers … cracked into Equifax’s systems by taking advantage of an unpatched software bug IMPACT: hackers stole the driver’s license information of more than 10 million Americans IMPACT: in addition to the Social Security numbers and other personal details about 145.5 million Americans hackers took from Equifax’s systems… […]

Google News – October 20, 2017 ROOT CAUSE: the SMS bug was caused by the Android 8.0 Oreo update IMPACT: the first-generation Pixel and Pixel XL were having trouble receiving SMS text messages COMPANY RESPONSE: we have been able to identify and implement a fix for this issue… Thank you to those that sent over […]

NDTV – October 11, 2017 ROOT CAUSE: a “bug” IMPACT: caused at least some units to record sound at random times and transmit the audio to Google’s servers COMPANY RESPONSE: acknowledged the bug responsively and issued a software update to address the issue