Bug Stories for 2019

Mazda3 Bug Activates Emergency Brake System For No Reason 55
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
Apple Opens Public Bug Bounty Program, Publishes Official Rules 10
The Most Copied StackOverflow Java Code Snippet Contains a Bug 71
A Bug In Microsoft's Login System Put Users At Risk of Account Hijacks 20
iOS Apps Could Really Benefit From the Newly Proposed Security.plist Standard 13
NSO Employees Take Legal Action Against Facebook For Banning Their Accounts 53
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
Google Chrome Experiment Crashes Browser Tabs, Impacts Companies Worldwide 50
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge 19
Facebook Bug Has Camera Activated While People Are Using the App 92
Security Researchers Exploit Amazon Echo's Chromium Bug, Win $60,000 Bounty 6
6 In 10 Websites May Be Impacted by jQuery XSS Vulnerabilities 25
Scammers Are Actively Exploiting A Firefox Bug 26
A Ton of People Received Text Messages Overnight That Were Originally Sent on Valentine's Day 82
A Glitch in Robinhood App is Allowing Users To Trade Stocks With Excess Borrowed Funds, Giving Them Access To What Amounts To Free Money 68
Android Bug Lets Hackers Plant Malware Via NFC Beaming 14
Complaints Mounting About iOS 13.2 Being 'More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks' 52
Apple App Store Bug Reportedly Erases Over 20 Million App Ratings In a Week 10
Nasty PHP7 Remote Code Execution Bug Exploited in the Wild on NGINX Servers 16
Unpatched Linux Bug May Open Devices To Serious Attacks Over Wi-Fi 21
Apple Hid a Lightning Connector For Debugging In the Apple TV 4K's Ethernet Port 60
A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies 20
Mysterious Mac Pro Shutdowns Likely Caused By Chrome Update 91
Apple Says a Bug May Grant 'Full Access' To Third-Party Keyboards By Mistake 52
Startups Are Using Insect Larvae To Produce Protein-Rich Ingredients For Animals 57
iOS 13 Ships With Known Lockscreen Bypass Flaw That Exposes Contacts 19
Apple's iOS 13 Just Launched But iOS 13.1, iPadOS Arrive Next Week 51
Password-Leaking Bug Purged From LastPass Extensions 8
New Windows 10 Update Bugs Include Orange Screenshots 96
Chrome OS Bug Started Mistakenly Sending 'Final Update' Notifications 21
Google Expands Bug Bounty Programme To All Apps With Over 100M Installs 2
Exploit For Wormable BlueKeep Windows Bug Released Into the Wild 24
Google Says Hackers Have Put 'Monitoring Implants' in iPhones For Years 68
Apple Patches iPhone Jailbreaking Bug 36
Google Confirms Android 10 Will Fix 193 Security Vulnerabilities 31
Security Researchers Find Several Bugs In Nest Security Cameras 6
Intel Patches Three High-Severity Vulnerabilities 32
Google Criticized For Vulnerability That Can Trick Its AI Into Deactivating Accounts 49
Windows Update To Fix Critical 'Wormable' Flaws May Break VB Apps 20
Credit Karma Glitch Exposed Users To Other People's Accounts 9
Vulnerability in Microsoft CTF Protocol Goes Back To Windows XP 64
Researchers Find More Than 40 Vulnerable Windows Device Drivers 16
Remember Autorun.inf Malware In Windows? Turns Out KDE Offers Something Similar 85
New Spectre-like CPU Vulnerability Bypasses Existing Defenses 57
Twitter Fesses Up To More Adtech Leaks 18
New Vulnerabilities Found In WPA3 WiFi Standard 58
Google Reveals Fistful of Flaws In Apple's iMessage App 41
Penetration Testing Toolkit Includes Exploit For 'Incredibly Dangerous' Bluekeep Vulnerability 67
Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines To Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours 131
VLC Developer Debunks Reports of 'Critical Security Issue' In Open Source Media Player 80
Microsoft Criticized For VPN-Breaking Windows 10 Update 135
Google Admits Bug Could Let People Spy On Nest Cameras 30
Vim and Neo Editors Vulnerable To High-Severity Bug 76
WordPress.com VIP Platform Outage Reverts Sites To Default Themes 60
Docker Bug Allows Root Access To Host File System 76
First American Financial Corp. Leaked 885 Million Sensitive Title Insurance Records 51
Salesforce Triggers 15-Hour Shutdown After Faulty Script Starts Granting View/Modify Access 29
Division 2 Multiplayer and Single-Player Campaign Broken By Latest Update 27
'Hard-To-Fix' Cisco Flaw Puts Work Email At Risk 47
GDB 8.3 Released 38
Genetically Modified Viruses Help Save a Patient With a 'Superbug' Infection 64
Reporter Recounts a Quirk in Google's Search Algorithm That Resulted in His Phone Number Getting Listed as Facebook's Customer Support 49
How a Half-Inch Beetle Finds Fires 80 Miles Away 62
A Glitch Is Breaking All Firefox Extensions 311
Dell Laptops and PCs Vulnerable To Remote Hijacks 70
Notre Dame Official Says 'Computer Glitch' Could Be Fire Culprit 173
New York City Has a Y2K-Like Problem, and It Doesn't Want You To Know About It 119
Scranos Rootkit Expands Operations From China To the Rest of the World 27
Critical Magento SQL Injection Flaw Could Soon Be Targeted By Hackers 14
macOS 10.14.4 Mail Client Has Broken Gmail Access For Some Users 48
Multiple US Airlines Hit By Flight Check-in and Booking Systems Outage 41
Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? 330
Pwn2Own Competitors Crack Tesla, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 10 41
Google, Microsoft Work Together For a Year To Figure Out New Type of Windows Flaw 53
19-Year-Old WinRAR Vulnerability Leads To Over 100 Malware Exploits 144
Windows 10 Could Automatically Uninstall Buggy Windows Updates 64
'Smart' Car Alarm App Could Allow 3 Million Cars To Be Unlocked Remotely 27
Exploit Vendor Zerodium Announces Big Rewards For Cloud Zero-Days 27
Android TV Bug Gave Users Access To Strangers' Google Photos 41
Google Researchers Say Software Alone Can't Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws 98
Apple's Newest Macs Seem To Have a Serious Audio Bug 144
Even Years Later, Twitter Doesn't Delete Your Direct Messages 30
Xiaomi's Popular Electric Scooter M365 Can Be Hacked To Speed Up or Stop 35
Insects Could Vanish Within a Century At Current Rate of Decline, Says Global Review 241
Researcher Reveals a Severe, Unpatched Mac Password Flaw To Protest Apple Bug Bounty 155
Teenager Who Found FaceTime Bug Will Be Eligible For Bug Bounty Program 49
Apple Says It Will Fix The FaceTime Bug That Allows You To Access Someone's iPhone Camera And Microphone Before They Pick Up 63
Lawyer Sues Apple Over FaceTime Eavesdrop Bug, Says It Let Someone Record a Sworn Testimony 173
Google+ Reveals Shutdown Timeline For Consumers 31
Apple Was Notified About Major FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug Over a Week Ago 54
A Bug in FaceTime Allows One To Access Someone's iPhone Camera And Microphone Before They Answered the Call; Apple Temporarily Disables Group FaceTime Feature 88
Do Debian APT and PHP Pear Patches Highlight Vulnerability In Package Management Infrastructure? 48
Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices 100
Twitter Bug Exposed Some Android Users' Protected Tweets For Years 13
Fortnite Bugs Gave Hackers Access To Millions of Player Accounts, Researchers Say 27
Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' 401
Pwn2Own Contest Will Pay $900,000 For Hacks That Exploit Tesla's Model 3 47
Hack Allows Escape of Play-With-Docker Containers 45
Monarch Butterfly Numbers Plummet 86 Percent In California 148