Bug Stories for 2011

October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code 136
Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive 603
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? 360
Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy 463
Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least 435
Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access 99
Linux Kernel Power Bug Is Fixed 145
Charlie Miller Circumvents Code Signing For iOS Apps 172
MS Traces Duqu Zero-Day To Font Parsing In Win32k 221
Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4S Battery Problems 315
Google's iOS Gmail App Pulled 90
Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself 142
Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault 356
Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution 61
XML Encryption Broken, Need To Fix W3C Standard 80
Linux Kernel Developer Declares VirtualBox Driver "Crap" 357
Facebook Confirms New Cookie-Tracking Issue 85
Security Flaw Bypasses AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Screen Lock 49
Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus 258
Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior 80
SCADA Problems Too Big To Call 'Bugs,' Says DHS 92
Book Review: JIRA 4 Essentials 33
Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges 97
Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling 334
Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github 105
Fix For Apache DoS Bug In the Pipes 49
Microsoft Patches 1990s-Era 'Ping of Death' 128
OS X Lion Ships With Faulty NVidia Drivers 284
Google Patches 30 Chrome Bugs, Adds Instant Pages 103
Facebook To Pay Hackers For Bugs 54
Circuit Flaws Blamed For China Train Crash 103
Java 7 Ships With Severe Bug 180
Heat 'Most Likely Cause' of Pioneer Anomaly 133
Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit 86
Linux 3.0 Release Delayed 187
Researcher Finds Dangerous Vulnerability In Skype 42
Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs 147
Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications 321
Google Wrestles With Privacy Bugs In Google+ 163
NYT Update Breaks iPad App, Annoys Subscribers 140
The Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes 213
Nailing the Cause of Recent Linux Power Issues 156
Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours 185
13-Year-Old Password Security Bug Fixed 130
Life As a Bug Hunter 68
Metasploit Launches Exploit Bounty Program 26
Computer Glitch Friday Grounded US Airways Flights 140
Siemens Fixes SCADA Flaws 36
Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory 375
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? 619
Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills 384
GNOME Shell Hurts Gaming Performance 232
Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior 68
Skype Issues Software Fix For Windows and Mac Users 61
Bug Bounties: Outbidding the Black Hats 59
Google Engineers Deny Hack Exploited Chrome 244
New Chrome Exploit Bypasses Sandbox, ASLR and DEP 150
Does Microsoft Need Bug Bounties? 100
Apple Releases iOS 4.3.3 To Fix Location Tracking 212
More Windows Phone Update Problems 103
Amazon Automatic Pricing Lists Book At $23M 147
Computer Opens Unmanned Store For Holiday 333
Linux Kernel Suffering Power Management Regression? 186
Microsoft Kicks Off Third-Party Bug Warnings 86
5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study 468
Flash On Android Fails To Impress 436
Adobe To Patch Flash 0-Day Friday 113
ALS Sufferer Used Legs To Contribute Last Patch 222
Kepler Recovers After 144 Hour "Glitch" 73
2011 MacBook Pros Confirmed To Crash Under Load 501
Drupal 8 Development Begins — 15 Bugs At a Time 88
Researcher Blows $15K By Reporting Bug To Google 69
Windows Phone 7 Update Jams Some Phones 177
Remote Bug Found In Ubuntu Kerberos 93
Recent HP Laptops Shipped CPU-Choking Wi-Fi Driver 243
The Joys of Running a Bug Bounty Program 52
Security Patch Breaks VMware Users' Windows Desktops 80
Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Sandy Bridge Chip 203
Asus, Gigabyte To Replace All Sandy Bridge Boards 180
Sandy Bridge Chipset Shipments Halted Due To Bug 212
New Critical Bug In All Current Windows Versions 156
Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar 284
Microsoft Explains Windows Phone 7 'Phantom Data' 270
Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs 481
Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty 182
Man Arrested For Exploiting Error In Slot Machines 611
PHP Floating Point Bug Crashes Servers 213
Microsoft Confirms Zero-Day Hours After Exploit 53
Does Windows Phone 7 Have a Data Transmission Bug? 202
iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug 405
Security Researcher Finds Hundreds of Browser Bugs 145