Bug Stories for 2017

A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets 113
Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem 167
Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing 242
Microsoft's 'Malware Protection Engine' Had A Remote Code Execution Flaw 54
Google Glitch Took Thousands of Chromebooks Offline 77
Apple Snafu Means Updating To macOS 10.13.1 Could Reactivate Root Access Bug 74
A Programing Error Blasted 19 Russian Satellites Back Towards Earth 90
American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take Off The Holidays 200
MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password 237
iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting To 'I.T' On iOS 11 and Later 116
Is Sharp's Robot Vacuum Cleaner Vulnerable To Remote Take-over? 42
Apple Fixes the iPhone X 'Unresponsive When It's Cold' Bug 42
iPhone X Owners Experience 'Crackling' or 'Buzzing' Sounds From Earpiece Speaker 104
The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold 196
Researchers Run Unsigned Code on Intel ME By Exploiting USB Ports 171
Sex Toy Company Admits To Recording Users' Remote Sex Sessions, Calls It a 'Minor Bug' 81
An iOS 11.1 Glitch Is Replacing Vowels 123
Google Explains Tuesday's Drive, Docs Bug That Marked Some Files As Violating Terms of Service 97
Android Oreo Bug Sends Thousands of Phones Into Infinite Boot Loops 78
Bug in Google's Bug Tracker Lets Researcher Access List of Company's Vulnerabilities 37
If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 337
Critical Flaws In Maritime Communications System Could Endanger Entire Ships 41
Microsoft Chastises Google Over Chrome Security 111
Kaspersky Lab Finds Flash Vulnerability Through Microsoft Word 50
Massive 70-Mile-Wide Butterfly Swarm Shows Up On Denver Radar System 47
New 'Illusion Gap' Attack Bypasses Windows Defender Scans 74
Internet Explorer Bug Leaks Whatever You Type In the Address Bar 99
iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems 158
Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? 456
Equifax CSO 'Retires'. Known Bug Was Left Unpatched For Nearly Five Months 196
Bug In Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware 75
Android Oreo Bug Eats Up Mobile Data Even When On Wi-Fi 89
A Critical Apache Struts Security Flaw Makes It 'Easy' To Hack Fortune 100 Firms 42
AT&T Uverse Modems Found To Have Several Serious Security Vulnerabilities 75
Bug In Lowe's Site Sold Goods For Free. Couple Arrested For Exploiting It 239
Hundreds Of Smart Locks Get Bricked By A Buggy Firmware Update 119
Deserialization Issues Also Affect .NET, Not Just Java 187
The NSA Intercepted Microsoft's Windows Bug Reports 52
Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards 436
DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix 292
Debian, Gnome Patched 'Bad Taste' VBScript-Injection Vulnerabilities 72
Flaw In IoT Security Cameras Leaves Millions of Devices Open To Hackers 53
Microsoft Yanks Three Bad Patches Of Their Last Outlook Patch 78
TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust 505
24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug 352
Microsoft's Last 'Bug Bash' Before Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 80
Data Glitch Sets Tech Company Stock Prices At $123.47 52
'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years 551
Researcher Finds Critical OpenVPN Bug Using Fuzzing 47
32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online 201
You Can Hack Some Mazda Cars With a USB Flash Drive 52
Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later 460
Google Launches Android O Developer Preview 3 With Final APIs 16
Google Quadruples Top Reward For Hacking Android To $200,000 14
Google Chrome Bug Lets Sites Record Audio and Video Without a Visual Indicator 36
SSD Drives Vulnerable To Rowhammer-Like Attacks That Corrupt User Data 93
Wormable Code-Execution Bug Lurked In Samba For 7 Years 83
Two Different Studies Find Thousands of Bugs In Pacemakers, Insulin Pumps and Other Medical Devices 47
In a Throwback To the '90s, NTFS Bug Lets Anyone Hang Or Crash Windows 7, 8.1 128
Stealing Windows Credentials Using Google Chrome 53
As World Reacts To WanaDecrypt0r, Microsoft Issues Patch For Old Windows Systems 150
Google Found Over 1,000 Bugs In 47 Open Source Projects 55
Only 36 Percent of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code, Says Study 210
Some Of The Pentagon's Critical Infrastructure Still Runs Windows 95 And 98 152
GE Fixing Bug in Software After Warning About Power Grid Hacks 38
Maybe Don't Manually Install Windows 10 Creators Update, Says Microsoft 114
NSA's DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit a 'Bloodbath' 187
Linux 4.11 Delayed For a Week 48
IRS Warns Tax Info Leaked By US Financial Aid Site 21
LastPass Bugs Allow Malicious Websites To Steal Passwords 126
Edge, VMWare, Safari, And Ubuntu Linux Hacked at Pwn2Own 2017 83
Microsoft Admits Mistake, Pulls Problematic Windows 10 Driver 68
Hidden Backdoor Discovered In Chinese IoT Devices 85
Third-Party Vendor Issues Temporary Patch For Windows Vulnerability 39
Google Discloses Yet Another New Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerability In Edge/IE 73
94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights 238
Severe IE 11 Bug Allows 'Persistent JavaScript' Attacks 92
New iOS Update Fixes Unexpected Shutdown Issue On iPhone 6, iPhone 6s 49
Cloudflare Leaks Sensitive User Data Across the Web 87
Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays 264
Google Discloses An Unpatched Windows Bug (Again) 122
Facebook Is Closing 200 of Its 500 VR Demo Stations At Best Buy Stores Across US 128
Can The Mayhem AI Automate Bug-Patching? 23
Lawsuit Claims Apple Forced Users To iOS 7 By Breaking FaceTime 90
Cisco Patches 'Prime Home' Flaw That Allowed Hackers To Reach Into People's Homes 19
Dropbox Kept Files Around For Years Due To 'Delete' Bug 73
Apple Will Finally Let Developers Respond To App Store Reviews 62
Army Bug Bounty Researcher Compromises US Defense Department's Internal Network 49
Google Pressured 90,000 Android Developers Over Insecure Apps 50
Microsoft's Security Bulletins Will End In February 39
Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros 164
Buggy Domain Validation Forces GoDaddy To Revoke SSL Certificates 33