Bug Stories for 2012

Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug 1051
Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide 126
30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 1110
Whose Bug Is This Anyway? 241
Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System 210
Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers 102
Swedish Stock Exchange Hit By Programming Snafu 136
Researcher Finds Nearly Two Dozen SCADA Bugs In a Few Hours 104
NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 179
Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags 391
iOS 6 Streaming Bug Sends Data Usage Skyrocketing 98
Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump 86
EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel 249
Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco 125
Apple CEO Tim Cook Apologizes For Maps App, Recommends Alternatives 451
WhatsApp Threatens Developers of PC Gateway With Legal Action 27
Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely 269
New Java Vulnerability Found Affecting Java 5, 6, and 7 SE 121
Samsung Smartphones Vulnerable To Remote Wipe Hack 151
Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware 245
Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04 320
Recurly's Backup Mess Takes Days to Clean Up 21
ICS-CERT Warns That Infrastructure Switches Have Hard-Coded Account Holes 60
Java Exploit Patched? Not So Fast 87
Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day 367
Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi 202
iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing 92
ICS-CERT Warns of Serious Flaws In Tridium SCADA Software 34
Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software 267
Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million 377
Google Scrambles To Restore Google Talk From Outage 85
Skype Bug Sends Messages To Random Contacts 77
Yahoo! Closes Security Hole That Led To Breach 43
O2's UK Network Crash Hits Offender Monitoring System 56
Microsoft Kills Windows Gadgets Via Security Update 161
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects? 221
San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds 241
App Store Bug Corrupts Binaries; Angry Birds Crash 116
Facebook API Bug Deletes Contact Info On Phones 178
Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion 307
The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? 284
The PHP Singularity 622
Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software 391
Faulty Patch Freezes Millions of UK Bank Accounts 155
PayPal Starts Bug Bounty Program 39
Android 4.0 Upgrade For Sony Xperia Smartphones Opens a Pandora Box 181
Despite Game-Related Glitches, AMD Discontinues Monthly Driver Updates 213
Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines 151
Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text 205
Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective 240
Microsoft Patches Major Hotmail 0-day Flaw After Widespread Exploitation 88
Backdoor Found In Arcadyan-based Wi-Fi Routers 59
Bug Bounty Hunters Weigh In On Google's Vulnerability Reporting Program 24
Dot-Word TLDs Further Delayed 86
Major OpenSSL Security Issue Found (and Fixed) 78
Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool 188
On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear 263
The Risk of a Meltdown In the Cloud 154
Windows Remote Desktop Exploit In the Wild 94
RDP Proof-of-Concept Exploit Triggers Blue Screen of Death 128
Study Confirms the Government Produces the Buggiest Software 135
Raspberry Pi Production Delayed By Factory's Assembly Flub 132
AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon 292
Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch 247
Google Offers $1 Million For Chrome Exploits 63
Apple Settles Antennagate Class-Action Lawsuit 130
SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future 292
Microsoft's Antivirus Briefly Flags Google.com As Malicious 123
Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week 332
Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere 149
Serious Oracle Flaw Revealed; Patch Coming 100
Notes On Reducing Firefox's Memory Consumption 297