Bug Stories for 2013

The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech 96
The Biggest Tech Mishap of 2013? 162
Not All Bugs Are Random 165
Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses 303
How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation 118
Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows 199
The Case For a Global, Compulsory Bug Bounty 81
Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown 49
Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters 151
DARPA Makes Finding Software Flaws Fun 46
About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors 157
How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? 275
Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards 196
Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night 424
Failed Software Upgrade Halts Transit Service 125
Google Extends Its Patch Reward Program To Include Android 33
Netflix Users In Danger of Unknowingly Picking Up Malware 153
Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 309
Google Halts Sales of HP's USB-Charging Chromebook 11 Over Overheating 57
Microsoft and Facebook Launch Internet Bug Bounty Program 57
Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks 165
New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips 128
Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix 326
RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch 154
HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? 400
Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro 162
Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch 326
Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam 158
Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov 250
How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes 327
Simple Bug Exposed Verizon Users' SMS Histories 60
IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too 231
35,000 vBulletin Sites Have Already Been Exploited By Week Old Hole 91
Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Weeks Or Two Months 382
Xerox "Routine Backup Test" Leave 17 States Without Food Stamps 305
Irony: iPhone 5S Users Reporting Blue Screen of Death 192
How DirecTV Overhauled Its 800-Person IT Group With a Game 85
Microsoft Hands Out $28k In IE11 Bug Bounty Program 57
Yahoo To Offer Bug Bounty Rewards Up To $15,000 65
Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? 388
GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients 109
Hiccup In Space: Orbital Sciences ISS Docking Delayed By Days 51
BlackBerry Delays Launch of BBM Apps For iOS, Android 54
Software Glitch Means Loss of NASA's Deep Impact Comet Probe 65
A New Way To Fund Open Source Software Projects, Bug Fixes and Feature Requests 52
SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work 552
A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs 191
NASA Finds, Fixes Small Glitch in LADEE Moon Probe 44
Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission 170
CoreText Font Rendering Bug Leads To iOS, OS X Exploit 178
Google Claims ChromeCast Local Streaming Only Broken Because of SDK Changes 82
Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down 182
NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" 240
Google Admits Bitcoin Thieves Exploited Android Crypto PRNG Flaw 183
Google Multiplies Low-Tier Bug Bounties By Factor of Five 29
Xerox Confirms To David Kriesel Number Mangling Occuring On Factory Settings 163
How the Leap Second Bug Led Facebook To Build DCIM Tools 46
Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher 290
Researchers Demo Exploits Bypassing UEFI Secure Boot 100
How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? 238
English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers 168
Hackers Using Bots, Scripts To Lock Down Restaurant Reservations 214
Microsoft Bug Bounties Flow To Googlers 65
PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion 151
German Drone Darts Off and Hits Transport Plane On Ground 74
Database Loophole Lets Legislators Avoid Photo Radar Tickets 165
How Do You Get Better Bug Reports From Users? 205
Study Finds Bug Bounty Programs Extremely Cost-Effective 95
VLC And Secunia Fighting Over Vulnerability Reports 100
Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers 490
Exposed SSH Key Means US Emergency Alert System Can Be Hacked 86
Computer Failure Disrupts British Air Traffic Control Systems 35
Sent To Jail Because of a Software Bug 239
Patching Software on Another Planet 96
Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes 83
Firsthand Impressions of Now-Delayed NVIDIA SHIELD 74
21 Financial Sites Found To Store Sensitive Data In Browser Disk Cache 118
Microsoft Launches $100k Bug Bounty Program 68
Relicensing of MySQL Man Pages Just a Bug 68
BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? 487
GitHub Back Online After Service Outage 55
Bug In Samsung S3 Grabs Too Many Images, Ups Data Use 99
The Case For a Government Bug Bounty Program 53
Nasdaq Fined $10M Over Facebook IPO Failures 91
PayPal Reviewing Qualifying Age For Vulnerability Rewards 95
PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug 318
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? 524
Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin 334
Vulnerability Found In Skyrim, Fallout, Other Bethesda Games 179
Snapchats Don't Disappear 85
450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up 209
It's 2013, and Windows Activation Is Still Frustrating 435
Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges 312
Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage 151
Statistical Errors Keep 4700 K-3rd Students From NYC 'Gifted' Programs 215
The FAA Will Let Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Fly Again 32
Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers 274
American Airlines Grounds Flights 91
Taking the Pain Out of Debugging With Live Programming 254
Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch 154
British ISP Bombards Users With Deleted Emails 134
Matthew Garrett Has a Fix To Prevent Bricked UEFI Linux Laptops 74
Too Perfect a Mirror 192
Too Much Gold Delays World's Fastest Supercomputer 111
H&R Block Software Glitch To Delay 600,000 U.S. Tax Refunds 104
Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue 351
Massive Email Crash Hits Canadian ISP Shaw 150
Chrome, Firefox, IE 10, Java, Win 8 All Hacked At Pwn2Own 183
HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive 199
Japanese Probe Finds Miswiring of Boeing 787 Battery 201
Lots of Changes for Intel Graphics Coming in Linux 3.9 102
Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph 1176
What To Do When an Advised BIOS Upgrade Is Bad? 467
Six Months Without Adobe Flash, and I Feel Fine 393
Samsung Laptop Bug Is Not Linux Specific 215
iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users 266
IE Patch To Fix 57 Vulnerabilities 91
Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug 179
Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death 137
Kaspersky Update Breaks Internet Access For Windows XP Users 92
Typing These 8 Characters Will Crash Almost Any App On Your Mountain Lion Mac 425
Linux: Booting Via UEFI Can Brick Samsung Notebooks 232
58,000 Security Camera Systems Critically Vulnerable To Attackers 157
New Secure Boot Patches Break Hibernation 196
You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows 492
Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed 129
Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address 298
Security Expert Says Java Vulnerability Could Take Years To Fix, Despite Patch 320
HP Software Update Cancels Food Stamps 240
Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? 169
No Patch On Tuesday For Internet Explorer Hole 63
AMD Tweaking Radeon Drivers To Reduce Frame Latency Spikes 105