Y2K22: The Problem that Caused Millions of Emails Worldwide to go Undeliveredby@mcsee
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Y2K22: The Problem that Caused Millions of Emails Worldwide to go Undelivered

by Maximiliano Contieri2mJanuary 14th, 2022
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The new year arrived with new errors on [Microsoft Exchange] server. The problem caused millions of emails worldwide to go undelivered. Microsoft Exchange's malware scanning engine stores signature dates using [32-bit integers] The largest possible number that can be stored in 32-bit is *2147483647*. However, the QA team forgot to make basic boundaries testing using the [Zombie-testing-one-behavior-at-a-time-9s2m3zjo.

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