Bug Stories for 2014

Twitter Bug Locks Out Many Users 69
Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware 230
Computer Error Grounds Flights In the UK 68
Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987 172
Bad Lockup Bug Plagues Linux 257
Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug 39
NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds 170
Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches 388
Dangerous Vulnerability Fixed In Wget 58
OwnCloud Dev Requests Removal From Ubuntu Repos Over Security Holes 126
Cisco Fixes Three-Year-Old Telnet Flaw In Security Appliances 60
Software Glitch Caused 911 Outage For 11 Million People 115
Samsung Acknowledges and Fixes Bug On 840 EVO SSDs 101
Windows Flaw Allowed Hackers To Spy On NATO, Ukraine, Others 97
More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks 101
Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday 63
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Unresponsive Manufacturer Who Doesn't Fix Bugs? 204
Chrome 38 Released: New APIs and 159 Security Fixes 55
Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages 191
Hackers Compromised Yahoo Servers Using Shellshock Bug 69
Bugzilla Bug Exposes Zero-Day Bugs 34
Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility 349
Xen Cloud Fix Shows the Right Way To Patch Open-Source Flaws 81
Apple Fixes Shellshock In OS X 174
Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found 329
Ask Slashdot: Software Issue Tracking Transparency - Good Or Bad? 159
Apple Yet To Push Patch For "Shellshock" Bug 208
Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market 185
Amazon Forced To Reboot EC2 To Patch Bug In Xen 94
Apple Yanks iOS 8 Update 203
Some Core I7 5960X + X99 Motherboards Mysteriously Burning Up 102
Privacy Vulnerabilities In Coursera, Including Exposed Student Email Addresses 31
Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen 169
Project Zero Exploits 'Unexploitable' Glibc Bug 98
$75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen 194
Windows 8.1 Update Crippling PCs With BSOD, Microsoft Suggests You Roll Back 304
Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death 179
Errata Prompts Intel To Disable TSX In Haswell, Early Broadwell CPUs 131
Wiring Programmers To Prevent Buggy Code 116
PayPal's Two-Factor Authentication Can Be Bypassed Using eBay Bug 33
Passport Database Outage Leaves Thousands Stranded 162
"ExamSoft" Bar Exam Software Fails Law Grads 100
Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code 150
Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" 739
Bad "Buss Duct" Causes Week-long Closure of 5,000 Employee Federal Complex 124
CNN iPhone App Sends iReporters' Passwords In the Clear 40
Researchers Test Developer Biometrics To Predict Buggy Code 89
Critical Vulnerabilities In Web-Based Password Managers Found 114
Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s 205
Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap 349
Why Software Builds Fail 279
Over 300,000 Servers Remain Vulnerable To Heartbleed 74
One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ 396
European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating 128
SpaceX Landing Video Cleanup Making Progress 54
GnuTLS Flaw Leaves Many Linux Users Open To Attacks 127
OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers 132
Google Releases VirusTotal Uploader For OS X 37
The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say 373
Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple 116
Adobe Creative Cloud Is Back 74
Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android 415
Adobe Creative Cloud Services Offline (Again?) 164
5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Fixed 127
Eavesdropping With a Smart TV 93
4chan Launches '$20 Bug Bounty' After Hackers Ruin moot's Day 79
The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse 293
iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments 68
Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw 345
XP Systems Getting Emergency IE Zero Day Patch 179
Heartbleed Turned Against Cyber Criminals 50
HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose 100
Preventative Treatment For Heartbleed On Healthcare.gov 81
Bug Bounties Don't Help If Bugs Never Run Out 235
Heartbleed Sparks 'Responsible' Disclosure Debate 188
How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? 582
Private Keys Stolen Within Hours From Heartbleed OpenSSL Site 151
Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial 80
GM Names Names, Suspends Two Engineers Over Ignition-Switch Safety 236
Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake 447
Google Chrome Flaw Sets Your PC's Mic Live 152
Canada Halts Online Tax Returns In Wake of Heartbleed 50
Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation 239
OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks 303
Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics 175
Bugs In SCADA Software Leave 7,600 Factories Vulnerable 70
Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw 128
Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours 148
Western Digital 'MyCloud' Is Down 5 Days and Counting 127
Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? 266
Camera Module Problems May Delay Samsung's Galaxy S5 70
Large DDoS Attack Brings WordPress Pingback Abuse Back Into Spotlight 58
Portal 2 Incompatible With SELinux 212
Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk 231
Complete Microsoft EMET Bypass Developed 116
Apple SSL Bug In iOS Also Affects OS X 140
Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration 664
Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability 120
Why Your Phone Gets OTA Updates But Your Car Doesn't 305
Dear Asus Router User: All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us 148
DARPA Training Cadets and Midshipmen As Cyber Warriors 65
More Bitcoin Exchanges Forced Out of Sync After Massive DDoS Attack 135
Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? 716
GitHub Launches Bug Bounty Program, Offers Between $100 and $5,000 14
Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold 476
How Google Broke Itself and Fixed Itself, Automatically 125
Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man 113
Microsoft Quietly Fixes Windows XP Resource Hog Problem 246
Encrypted Messaging Startup Wickr Offers $100K Bug Bounty 39
23-Year-Old X11 Server Security Vulnerability Discovered 213
Snapchat Update Addresses Security Hole 58
Unencrypted Windows Crash Reports a Blueprint For Attackers 103