Bug Stories for 2018

Google is Working on a Fix For Laggy Tablet Mode on Chrome OS Devices 41
EU Offers Big Bug Bounties On 14 Open Source Software Projects 78
If Your Gmail Inbox Is Being Flooded With Promo Emails, You're Not Alone 49
Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude 100
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
New Gmail Bug Allows Sending Messages Anonymously 55
That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache 166
Microsoft Pulls Some Non-Security Updates For Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and 2016 That It Released Earlier This Month 58
Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets 21
The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It 663
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
A 100,000-Router Botnet Is Feeding On a 5-Year-Old UPnP Bug In Broadcom Chips 39
Disgruntled Security Researcher Publishes Major VirtualBox 0-Day Exploit 130
A Bug in Steam, Which Was Recently Patched, Could Have Given Users Access To Activation Key of Any Game 19
Some Windows 10 Pro Users Say Their PCs Are No Longer Activated And Are Been Prompted To Downgrade To Windows 10 Home 271
Android Pie Has a Battery Life Problem 76
Apple Watch Owners Asked To Return Devices For Repair After Update Glitch 48
Google Pixel 3 XL Bug Adds Second Notch To Side of the Screen 44
Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems 114
Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users' Knowledge 110
Microsoft's Problem Isn't How Often it Updates Windows -- It's How It Develops It 227
Latest Windows 10 Update Has Yet Another File-Managing Issue 177
As PHP Group Patches High-Risk Bugs, 62% of Sites Still Use PHP 5 112
Buggy Software in Popular Connected Storage Drives Can Let Hackers Read Private Data 44
Google Warns Apple: Missing Bugs in Your Security Bulletins Are 'Disincentive To Patch' 43
Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open 83
'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss 336
Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug 79
At Least Two US Attorneys General Are Investigating Google+ Breach 34
Apple Releases iOS 12.0.1 With Fixes For Wi-Fi 2.4GHz Bug, Lightning Charging Issue 84
Some Apple Watch Series 4 Models Are Frequently Crashing and Rebooting Due to a Daylight Saving Time Bug 110
Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October Update 139
Facebook Bug Prevented Users From Deleting Their Accounts 49
'I'm Admin. You're Admin. Everyone is Admin.' Remote Access Bug Turns Western Digital My Cloud Into Everyone's Cloud 74
Uber Glitch Stops Payments To Drivers, Prices Surge 90
Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69 71
Intel Blocked Collaboration On Spectre/Meltdown Fixes, Says Linux Kernel Developer 83
How Do Spectre/Meltdown Fixes Affect The Linux Kernel? 29
Android Bug Allows Geolocation Tracking of Users 46
Crowdsourcing the Hunt For Software Bugs is a Booming Business -- and a Risky One 12
Staff At Gatwick Airport Use Whiteboards After Flight Information Screens Fail 50
Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits 198
Google Patches Chrome Bug That Lets Attackers Steal Web Secrets Via Audio Or Video HTML Tags 14
Apple Pulls iOS 12 Beta 7 Update Due To Performance Issues 44
Android Pie Breaks Pixel XL's Ability To Fast Charge 79
Researchers Disclose New 'Inverse Spectre Attack' 96
Researcher Finds A Hidden 'God Mode' on Some Old x86 CPUs 114
US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating 178
TCP Flaw Lets Remote Attackers Stall Devices With Tiny DoS Attack 54
Bugs In Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack 44
Big Tech Warns of 'Japan's Millennium Bug' Ahead of Akihito's Abdication 211
Bluetooth Security Flaw Could Let Nearby Attacker Grab Your Private Data 30
Apple's China-Friendly Censorship Caused An iPhone-Crashing Bug 78
Is iOS 11.4 Draining Your iPhone's Battery? You're Not Alone 148
Critical Bug Last Year Allowed Bypassing Authentication On HPE ILO4 Servers With 29 'A' Characters 59
Valve Shuts Down New Way of Estimating Game Sales On Steam 41
Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission 111
Facebook Apologizes For Bug That Unblocked 800,000 People 66
ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' 200
Every Android Device Launched Since 2012 Impacted By RAMpage Vulnerability 83
Bugs Allowed Hackers To Make Malware Look Like Apple Software 72
Facebook Alerts 14M To Privacy Bug That Changed Status Composer To Public 36
Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects 127
NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error 124
5.3M Cars Recalled Because 'Drivers May Not Be Able to Turn Off Cruise Control' 152
Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? 254
T-Mobile Bug Let Anyone See Any Customer's Account Details 40
Comcast Website Bug Leaks Xfinity Customer Data 43
Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test 167
Cell Phone Tracking Firm Exposed Millions of Americans' Real-time Locations 39
Researchers Create First Flying Wireless Robotic Insect 64
Malware Found In the Ubuntu Snap Store 90
26% of Companies Ignore Security Bugs Because They Don't Have the Time to Fix Them 90
Multiple OS Vendors Release Security Patches After Misinterpreting Intel Docs 81
Eight New Meltdown-Like Flaws Found 82
Microsoft's 'Meltdown' Patch For Windows 10 Contains a Fatal Flaw 106
Twitter Says Glitch Exposed 'Substantial' Number of Users' Passwords In Plain Text 107
Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update? 149
GitHub Accidentally Exposes Some Plaintext Passwords In Its Internal Logs 151
Code Published for Triggering a BSOD on Windows Computers -- Even If They're Locked 118
Uber Tightens Bug Bounty Extortion Policies Following 2016 Data Breach 16
Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 90
Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole In Windows Defender 71
Facebook Blames a 'Bug' For Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos 66
Half of European Flights Delayed Due To System Failure 12
Software Bug Behind Biggest Telephony Outage In US History 106
Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown Fixes From January and February Made PCs More Insecure 84
Software Glitch Robs Formula 1 World Champ of Season's First Win 123
Apple's Newest iPhone X Ad Captures an Embarrassing iOS 11 Bug 81
Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops 282
How Are Sysadmins Handling Spectre/Meltdown Patches? 49
'Critical' T-Mobile Bug Allowed Hackers To Hijack Users' Accounts 16
Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall 256
Apple Updates All of Its Operating Systems To Fix App-crashing Bug 70
Mac and iOS Bug Crashes Apps With a Single Indian-Language Character 114
Skype Can't Fix a Nasty Security Bug Without a Massive Code Rewrite 151
A Flaw In Hotspot Shield Can Expose VPN Users, Locations 25
Apple is Postponing Release of New Features To iOS This Year To Focus on Reliability and Performance: Report 106
Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations 90
Malwarebytes Released Two Bad Web Protection Updates 70
Dell and HP Advise All Their Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates 88
Intel Urges OEMs and End Users To Stop Deploying Spectre Patch As It May 'Introduce Higher Than Expected Reboots' 155
Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' 507
'Text Bomb' Is Latest Apple Bug 60
Intel Says Newer Chips Also Hit by Unwanted Reboots After Patch 115
Now Meltdown Patches Are Making Industrial Control Systems Lurch 98
VMware Bug Allowed Root Access 33
Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages 84
Intel's Chip Bug Fixes Have Bugs of Their Own 59
Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor 160
After Intel ME, Researchers Find Security Bug In AMD's SPS Secret Chip-on-Chip 76
Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users 375
'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign 416
Which Programming Languages Are Most Prone to Bugs? 247