Ouch! #1: Bugs in the Real World

Hey, what about something new?

In this series, we will look at some news describing very nasty bugs there appeared on the news.

Disclaimer:

The goal here is not to bash on the companies and people involved in the products, but to raise awareness of all of us that:

1 - We all may fail, and fail ugly; 2 - We can learn firstly from others’ mistakes.

I firmly believe that openness for criticism and self-awareness of our mistakes are important practices for healthy and continuously better industry.

Bugs

• Burger King’s franchise loses $8.3 million due to additional discounts in promotions

• Updates goes bad, potentially contaminated marijuana batches are label incorrectly and sold

• Problem on TBS systems delays wages and pensions payments

• Flight-plan generator crashes and airplanes pilots have to build their routes by hand

• Bug on Android allow invaders to control the phone’s camera

• Whatsapp bug allows Remote Code Execution and Denial-of-Service attacks

• General Motors recalls 650.000 trucks because of bug in the braking system