Bug Stories for 2015

List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 349
Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator 136
Steam: No "Unauthorized Actions" On Exposed Accounts 33
Steam Bug Shows You Other Users' Account Details 92
Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early 211
NASA Has Suspended Its Next Mission To Mars 46
HIV Dating Company Accuses Researchers of Hacking Database 71
New Outlook Bug Doesn't Require Users To Interact With Emails To Be Compromised 102
Bernie Sanders Campaign Blocked From DNC Voter Info After Improper Access 313
Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services 96
Attackers Can Hijack Joomla Sites Via User-Agent Strings 66
No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net 216
AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug 132
Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers 115
The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs 241
Zero-Day Bugs In Numerous Modems/Routers Could Compromise Millions of Users 81
Exploit Vendor Publishes Prices For Zero-Day Vulnerabilities 21
GPS Always Overestimates Distances 131
Celebrating 30th Anniversary of the First C++ Compiler: Let's Find Bugs In It 153
Bug Bounties Are Bonanza, For a Few Persistent Hackers 27
Xen Patches 7-Year-Old Bug That Shattered Hypervisor Security 61
Microsoft To Pay Up To $15K For Bugs In Two Visual Studio Tools 43
Hundreds of Southwest Flights Delayed By Online Booking Problems 36
Kaspersky Fixes Bug That Allowed Attackers To Block Windows Update & Others 34
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going 149
F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots 179
Some Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Smartphones Mysteriously Powering Down 59
Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones 144
Office 2016 Proving Unstable With Apple's El Capitan 138
$50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card 145
Newly Found TrueCrypt Flaw Allows Full System Compromise 106
Chrome For Android's Incognito Mode Saves Some of the Sites You Visit 69
Apple Admits iCloud Problem Has Killed iOS 9 'App Slicing' 143
Mozilla Fixed a 14-Year-Old Bug In Firefox, Now Adblock Plus Uses Less Memory 410
Apple's iOS 9 Breaks VPNs 88
Crash Chrome With 16 Characters 205
Abusing Symbolic Links Like It's 1999 54
Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 157
Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk 192
Apple Launches Free iPhone 6 Plus Camera Replacement Program 68
Air Traffic Snafu: FAA System Runs Out of Memory 234
Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket 88
The Tech Problems Inside Nintendo's Amiibo Toys 70
SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend 378
'Banned' Article About Faulty Immobilizer Chip Published After Two Years 87
Broken Windows 10 Update Causes Reboot Loops For Some Users 203
Oracle Exec: Stop Sending Vulnerability Reports 229
Linux Servers' Entropy Pool Too Shallow, Compromising Security 111
Ask Slashdot: Patch Management For Offline Customer Systems? 78
KDE Plasma 5 Problem Traced To Bug In Intel Graphics Driver 56
OS X Bug Exploited To Infect Macs Without Need For Password 127
Privacy Alert: Your Laptop Or Phone Battery Could Track You Online 95
Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code 184
Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Files Can Be Used To Crash Android Phones 92
Honeywell Home Controllers Open To Any Hacker Who Can Find Them Online 85
.NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters 149
The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't 55
A Tweet-Sized Exploit Can Get Root On OS X 10.10 130
Bug Exposes OpenSSH Servers To Brute-Force Password Guessing Attacks 157
Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds 136
New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" 196
Toyota Recalls 625,000 Hybrid Vehicles Over Software Glitch 56
Critical Internet Explorer 11 Vulnerability Identified After Hacking Team Breach 58
65,000+ Land Rovers Recalled Due To Software Bug 97
First Java 0-Day In 2 Years Exploited By Pawn Storm Hackers 122
Linux Foundation's Census Project Ranks Open Source Software At Risk 47
Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading 190
Bitcoin Snafu Causes Miners To Generate Invalid Blocks 179
Google Hangouts and SMS Integration: A Mess, For Now 62
MIT System Fixes Software Bugs Without Access To Source Code 78
Chromecast Update Bringing Grief For Many Users 142
Warner Bros. Halts Sales of AAA Batman PC Game Over Technical Problems 223
HP Researchers Disclose Details of Internet Explorer Zero Day 49
Bank's IT Failure Loses 600,000 Payments 96
Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack 104
Unreal Engine Code Issues Fixed By Third-party Company 72
Google Expands Security Rewards To Bugs In Android Devices 20
Wassenaar Treaty Will Hamper Bug Bounties 35
Tesla Rewards Hackers With Bug Bounty 33
Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair 225
Macs Vulnerable To Userland Injected EFI Rootkits 82
Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks 290
MinGW and MSVCRT Conflict Causes Floating-Point Value Corruption 98
DARPA Wants You To Verify Software Flaws By Playing Games 31
A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot 248
Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned 226
Software Glitch Caused Crash of Airbus A400M Military Transport Aircraft 120
The BBC Looks At Rollover Bugs, Past and Approaching 59
Hacking the US Prescription System 78
Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power 250
Tattoos Found To Interfere With Apple Watch Sensors 403
Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights 263
RealTek SDK Introduces Vulnerability In Some Routers 35
Buggy Win 95 Code Almost Wrecked Stuxnet Campaign 93
Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs 148
iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area 117
iTunes Stops Working For Windows XP Users 368
Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps 73
Incorrectly Built SLS Welding Machine To Be Rebuilt 150
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Found In Windows HTTP Stack 119
New Samsung SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Fix Coming Later This Month 72
Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices 179
Mozilla Rolls Back Firefox 37's Opportunistic Encryption Over Security Issue 42
Are Bug Bounties the Right Solution For Improving Security? 58
'Bar Mitzvah Attack' Plagues SSL/TLS Encryption 23
MIT Debuts Integer Overflow Debugger 40
OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab 119
Incomplete Microsoft Patch Left Machines Exposed To Stuxnet LNK Vulnerability 33
Exploiting the DRAM Rowhammer Bug To Gain Kernel Privileges 180
Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux 338
Mars Curiosity Rover Experiences Short Circuit, Will Be Stationary For Days 33
NVIDIA Fixes Old Compiz Bug 51
Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk 114
Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake 131
Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot 192
Security-Focused BlackPhone Was Vulnerable To Simple Text Message Bug 46
NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained 113
NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug 145
Linus Fixes Kernel Regression Breaking Witcher 2 126
Google Releases More Windows Bugs 263
Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files 329
Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw 629
Closure On the Linux Lockup Bug 115
Asus Wireless Routers Can Be Exploited By Anyone Inside the Network 68
NASA's Robonaut 2 Can't Use Its Space Legs Upgrade 58
2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are 255