Bug Stories for 2016

Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications 55
Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due To Security Bug In Popular PHP Script 104
Some Pixels Have Problems 69
Twitter Admits It Recently Overcharged For Ads 24
Google Releases Tool To Find Common Crypto Bugs 22
Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? 148
5-Year-Old Critical Linux Vulnerability Patched 68
New Bug In Windows 10 Anniversary Update Brings Wi-Fi Disconnects 191
Adobe Flash Responsible For Six of the Top 10 Bugs Used By Exploit Kits In 2016 72
Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS 45
Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems 76
iOS 10.1.1 Is Causing Battery Issues For Many iPhone Users 91
Malicious Video Link Can Cause Any iOS Device To Freeze 53
Shazam Keeps Your Mac's Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off 126
1 Billion Mobile Apps Exposed To Account Hijacking Through OAuth 2.0 Flaw 77
'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming 497
Scammers Bite Chrome Users With Forgotten 2014 Bug 35
Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead 62
Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives 196
iOS WebView Bug Can Force iPhones To Make Calls While UI Freezes 22
Two Critical MySQL Bugs Discovered 70
App Developers Spend Too Much Time Debugging Errors in Production Systems 167
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Are Exploiting Newly Discovered Flaw In Windows OS 111
Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander 163
Google's 'Project Zero' Hid A Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores 88
Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems 152
VeraCrypt Security Audit Reveals Many Flaws, Some Already Patched 75
Evernote Confirms a Serious Bug Caused Data Loss For Some Mac Users 31
Ford's Buggy Infotainment System Referred To By Engineers As 'Polished Turd' and 'Unsaleable' 292
Class Action Lawsuit Grows Over iPhone 6 Plus 'Touch Disease' 210
Linus Torvalds Says 'Buggy Crap' Made It Into Linux 4.8 294
Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd 508
Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch 222
Tesla Fixes Security Bugs After Claims of Model S Hack 76
Cisco Scrambles To Patch Second Shadow Brokers Bug In Firewalls 30
T-Mobile To iPhone Users: Do Not Download iOS 10 For Now 63
Google Is Offering $200K To Hack Android Phones Using Email and A Phone Number 49
iOS 10, Released Today, Is Causing Issues For Some Users 133
Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due To Unexpected Bugs 208
IoT Devices With Default Telnet Passwords Used As Botnet 57
Malware Infects 70% of Seagate Central NAS Drives, Earns $86,400 98
General Motors Recalls 4.3 Million Vehicles Over a Software Bug 74
Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt 85
Yelp Launches Public Bug Bounty Program 14
Staff Breach At OneLogin Exposes Password Storage Feature 47
Google Login Bug Allows Credential Theft 43
Microsoft Lost a City Because They Used Wikipedia Data 109
Windows 10 Computers Crash When Amazon Kindles Are Plugged In 259
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Handle Microsoft's New 'Cumulative' Windows Updates? 405
Microsoft Announces 'Cumulative' Updates Will Become Mandatory For Windows 7 and 8.1 275
Computer Science Professor Mocks The NSA's Buggy Code 179
FalseCONNECT Vulnerability Affects Software From Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, More 32
Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick 73
One In Five Vehicle Software Vulnerabilities Are 'Hair On Fire' Critical 85
Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn 75
Delta Air Lines Grounded Around the World After Computer Outage 239
Apple Announces Bug Bounty At Black Hat With Maximum $200,000 Reward 39
'How I Hacked Imgur for Fun and Profit' 45
Android Stagefright Bug Required 115 Patches, Millions Still At Risk 50
Xen Vulnerability Allows Hackers To Escape Qubes OS VM And Own the Host 73
'High-Risk Vulnerabilities' In Oracle File-Processing SDKs Affect Major Third-Party Products 11
Microsoft Rewrites Wassenaar Arms Control Pact To Protect The Infosec Industry 20
Apple Begins Rolling Out iTunes Match With Audio Fingerprint to Apple Music Subscribers 61
Juniper OS Flaw Allowed Forged Certificates 26
Microsoft Store Offers Free Laptop If They Can't Upgrade Your PC To Windows 10 126
Programming Bug Costs Citigroup $7M After Legit Transactions Mistaken For Test Data For 15 Years 135
Hacker Finds Bug to Edit or Delete Any Medium Post 39
MRI Software Bugs Could Upend Years Of Research 95
IRS Gets Hacked Again, Forced To Scrap Their Entire PIN System 104
Ethereum Debate Marred By Second Digital Currency Heist 44
KDE Bug Fixed After 13 Years 118
Delete Or Update All Adobe Flash Player Instances, Experts Warn 172
At Black Hat's Oscars: an Award For Hacking Junk 17
BadTunnel Bug Hijacks Network Traffic, Affects All Windows Versions 105
Severe Chrome Bug Allowed Arbitrary Code Execution 85
Thousands of Email Addresses Accidentally Disclosed By Let's Encrypt 81
Bitdefender Finds 'Hypervisor Wiretap' For Reading TLS-Encrypted Communications 86
Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14361 Released 135
Many Lexus Navigation Systems Bricked By Over-The-Air Software Update 110
A $190 Million Misclick for T. Rowe Price 35
Linux Kernel 4.6.1 Released; Some Users Report Boot Issue 161
Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' 485
iOS 9.3.2 Bricking Some 9.7-inch iPad Pro Devices With 'Error 56' Message 35
Microsoft Needs To Fix Skype 224
Ethical Hackers Donate 1,000,000 Air Miles To Charity 81
Attacker Compromises Pornhub, Sells Shell Access for $1,000, Says Columnist 57
Police Reveal Tactics For Fighting Botnets 38
Apple Says It Doesn't Know Why iTunes Users Are Losing Their Music Files 214
Pornhub Launches Bug Bounty Program With Rewards Up To $25,000 77
'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' 341
American Samoa Domain Registry Was Exposing Client Data Since the Mid-1990s 17
Node.js Version 6 Released With LTS 58
MIT Bug Finder Uncovers Flaws In Web Apps In 64 Seconds 24
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0 With Instant Run, Faster Android Emulator, and Cloud Test Lab 58
Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made 76
Steam Hacker Says More Vulnerabilities Will Be Found 37
'Hack The Pentagon' Bug Bounty Program Opens For Registration 36
Apple Releases iOS 9.3.1 With Fix For Unresponsive Links 36
Researcher Uses Valve Security Bug To Upload Paint Drying Game On Steam 48
Clicking on Links in iOS 9.3 Can Crash Your iPhone and iPad 100
Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download 39
Uber Announces Bug Bounty Program, To Pay Up To $10,000 To Friendly Hackers 18
iMessage Bug Allows Attackers to Decrypt Photos and Videos 27
What's Frying the Electrical Systems On BART Trains? 250
Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs 370
Critical Bug In Libotr Opens Users of ChatSecure, Adium, Pidgin To Compromise 25
2 Years Later, Java Security Still Broken By Faulty Oracle Patch 41
One Solution to MITRE's Overworked CVE System: Build a New One 47
Software Bug in F-35 Radar Causes Mid-Flight System Reboot 153
Cisco Patches Serious Flaws In Cable Modems and Home Gateways 22
Patch Tuesday Brought Windows 10 Ad Generator 490
Facebook Fixes Bug That Allowed Users To Set Other Users' Passwords 49
Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems 354
Cisco Issues Patch For Nexus Switches To Remove Hardcoded Credentials 36
Incident Raises Concerns About a More Formal Spec For Bitcoin 80
Windows' Built-In PDF Reader Exposes Edge Browser To Hacking 97
DoD Announces New Bug Bounty Program Called Hack the Pentagon 62
Ubuntu 15.10 Kernel Regression That Broke Graphics Displays In VMWare Patched 76
Nissan Leaf HVAC-Hack Vulnerability Disclosed 116
Cross-Site Scripting Enabled On 1000 Major Sites 54
Mousejack Attacks Exploit Wireless Keyboards and Mice 112
Linux Virtual Ethernet Bug Delivers Corrupt TCP/IP Data 40
Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products 387
Comodo Antivirus Tech Support Feature Lets Anyone Connect To Your PC 33
PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel 169
Researchers Find Method To Own VoIP Phones, Silently Listen To Any Call 36
Apple Says Sorry For iPhone Error 53 and Issues IOS 9.2.1 Update To Fix It 123
Magnitude of glibc Vulnerability Coming To Light 139
Hard-Coded Password Exposes Video Surveillance DVRs To Hacking 41
Year-Old Critical Magento Flaw Still Exploited, Payment Info Stolen 35
Red Hat, Google Disclose Severe Glibc DNS Vulnerability; Patched But Widespread 121
iPhones Bricked By Setting Date To Jan 1, 1970 170
The Internet of Broken Things 97
Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage 136
Have Your iPhone 6 Repaired, Only To Get It Bricked By Apple 410
IRS Computer Problems Shut Down Tax Return E-file System 176
Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? 148
Exploitable Backhole Accidentally Left In Some MediaTek-based Phones 79
Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems 699
LG G3 'Snap' Vulnerability Leaves Owners At Risk of Data Theft 39
FTDI Driver Breaks Hardware Again 268
Sensitive Information Can Be Revealed From Tor Hidden Services On Apache 37
Search Suggestions Causing Apple's Safari Browser To Crash on Many Devices 83
Discrepancy Detected In GPS Time 187
Fake Facebook Emails Deliver Malware Masquerading As Audio Message 47
Backdoor Account Found On Devices Used By White House, US Military 166
Yahoo Fixes Bug That Could Compromise Email Accounts When Opening an Email 37
Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patched 85
Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered In FFmpeg Lets Attackers Steal Files Remotely 72
OpenSSH Patches Bug That Leaks Private Crypto Keys 60
Nest Thermostat Bug Leaves Owners Without Heating 432
Intel Skylake Bug Causes PCs To Freeze During Complex Workloads 122
After Two Fixes, OAuth Standard Deemed Secure 19
Epoch Time Bug Causes Facebook To Congratulate Users On 46 Years of Friendship 108
Windows, OS X, and iOS Top 2015's List of Software With the Most Vulnerabilities 111