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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

TechCrunch

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). ” Image Credits: QA Wolf.

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Nowports raises $16M to build the OS for LatAm’s shipping industry

TechCrunch

Nowports raised its initial seed round in 2019 after graduating from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch with a mission to innovate the freight forwarding industry by helping companies — with an emphasis on SMEs — improve the import process. Nowports raises $5.3 Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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‘Memsad’ software rot threatens to leak your digital secrets

The Parallax

VANCOUVER—If coding and updating software is like building and maintaining a house, one might say software that leaks passcodes is like a home with a rotting foundation—but you don’t know it. “ [Memsad] is literally everywhere. If we can’t get it right, what hope is there for mere mortals?”—Ilja

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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CVE-2021-1609: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Cisco Small Business VPN Routers

Tenable

CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2021-1609 Web Management Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability 9.8 According to Cisco, the flaw exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. Successful exploitation would grant an attacker the ability to gain arbitrary command execution on the vulnerable device’s operating system.

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Technical interview platform Byteboard spins out of Google’s Area 120, takes on new funding

TechCrunch

Launched in 2019, Byteboard’s idea was to create a tool that would make the technical interview experience less tedious and more effective. The team noted at the time that the current process for interviewing software engineers didn’t really work for measuring how well someone would do in a day-to-day engineering job.

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. “Instagram is like an operating system for pictures. Other users review the posts before listing on the platform, either by upvotes or downvotes.

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