Bug Stories for 2008

Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide 785
Tales From the Support Crypt 855
Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware 224
Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros 313
Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability 455
Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug 175
Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail 77
Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years 157
Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays 288
Players Furious Over Buggy GTA IV PC Release 384
MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par 175
LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million 163
AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File 440
Bug In Android Passes Keystrokes To Root Shell 205
Critical Vulnerability In Adobe Reader 160
Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap 389
Nvidia Problems Hit HP Desktops 141
Bugs Delay Release of Debian Lenny 227
Tapping the IPhone, Courtesy of Yahoo! 27
e1000e Bug Squashed — Linux Kernel Patch Released 111
Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit 308
The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time 623
OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards 129
How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks 241
Asus Ships Cracking Software On Recovery DVD 263
Users Report Faulty WPA In 2nd-Gen IPod Touch 188
ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista 735
Nvidia 55nm Parts Are Bad Too 372
DNS Poisoning Hits One of China's Biggest ISPs 86
A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw 270
Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved 140
Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments 239
Massive VMware Bug Shuts Systems Down 410
Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes 341
Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes 196
Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing 310
Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 525
Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion? 99
Amazon Explains Why S3 Went Down 114
Patch DNS Servers Faster 145
Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time 246
RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named 312
Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC 203
Paul Vixie Responds To DNS Hole Skeptics 147
Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix 377
MS Security Patch Blocks Net Access For ZoneAlarm Users 110
Latest PS3 Firmware Update Requires Hard Disk Wipe to Fix 193
Thinking of Security Vulnerabilities As Defects 158
Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3 258
Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript 359
AoC Bug Penalizes Female Characters? 164
Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes 337
Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors 277
IE 7.0/8.0b Code Execution 0-Day Released 131
Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas 328
XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines 267
The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug 213
Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection 222
Widespread Keyboard Failures on OLPC's XO-1 264
Windows Update Can Hurt Security 220
Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch 379
Using X-ray Radiography To Reveal Ancient Insects 67
NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007 344
GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug 256
Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users 410
Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit 586
Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12 355
A $1 Billion Email Gaffe 314
Charter Accidentally Wipes 14K Email Accounts 213
Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash 369
Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday 542
Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks 202

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