IT Performance Management
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Y2K Bug Strikes again - 10 years late
The Y2K bug strikes again as legacy software struggles to handle the changeover to 1 January 2010.
Some experts are convinced the problems are due to quick fixes in the run up to 2000 which made any two-digit date less than 10 a date in the 2000s, while anything greater than 10 was pushed back into the 1900s.
Reported cases are:
- Allegedly Symantec SpamAssassain incorrectly scored legitimate e-mail as spam because the software thought that the date the message was sent was in the future.
- 30 million German bank cards at Deutsche Sparkassen und Girovernad bank were hit by a 2010 software error, which appears to have affected chip and pin cards.
- In Australia, 15,000 Bank of Queensland point-of-sales machines skipped ahead to 2016 rather than 2010 at midnight on December 31st, rendering them unusable by retailers. Payment services provider Keycorp, which looks after the PoS terminals, is playing down the Y2K similarity, saying the problem could have happened in any year.
If your users are reporting issues contact Altica for advice.
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