Bug Stories for 2020

Report: PHP, C++, Java, and .NET Applications are the Most Frequently Flawed 92
'Cyberpunk 2077' Players Are Fixing Parts of the Game Before CD Projekt 79
Cyberpunk 2077 Bugs Hit CD Projekt 148
New Videogame Bug Turns Spider-Man Into a Trash Can 52
Apple Lets Some Network Traffic Bypass Firewalls on MacOS Big Sur 113
Ubuntu Patches Bug That Tricked Gnome Desktop Into Giving Root Access 25
Google Patched an Actively-Exploited Zero-Day Bug in Chrome 14
Chrome Caught Exempting Google Sites From User Requests To Delete Data 50
First 'Murder Hornet' Nest In US Is Found In Washington State 120
Battery Drain Problems After iPhone Upgrade? Apple Suggests Complete Data Wipe 64
Google Patches ChromeOS Update Bug That Caused 100% CPU Usage 7
Google Is Building a Special Android Security Team to Hunt Bugs in Sensitive Apps 10
Bug Allowed Hijacking Other Firefox Mobile Browsers on the Same Wi-Fi Network 15
iOS 14 Resets iPhone's Default Apps To Apple's Safari and Mail After Reboot 55
Microsoft Warns Workaround Preventing Lenovo ThinkPad BSOD Increases Risk 32
Picture-In-Picture Mode On iOS 14 No Longer Working With YouTube's Mobile Website Unless You Pay For Premium 63
Academics Find Crypto Bugs in 306 Popular Android Apps, None Get Patched 32
An Alexa Bug Could Have Exposed Your Voice History To Hackers 42
Single-line Software Bug Causes Fledgling YAM Cryptocurrency To Implode Just Two Days After Launch 108
Germany Plans To Dim Lights At Night To Save Insects 117
Microsoft Goes Big in Security Bug Bounties: Its $13.7m is Double Google's 2019 Payouts 17
Red Hat Security Update Renders Systems Unbootable 88
AI Researchers Create Testing Tool To Find Bugs in NLP From Amazon, Google, and Microsoft 10
Microsoft Released an Emergency Security Update to Fix Two Bugs in Windows Codecs 62
Former Intel Engineer Claims Skylake QA Drove Apple Away 252
Stuck At Home, Scientists Discover 9 New Insect Species 35
Brave Browser Mistake Adds Its Referrer Code For Cryptocurrency Sites 26
Setting This Image As Wallpaper Could Soft-Brick Your Phone 42
Finding Serious 'Sign In with Apple' Hole Earns Security Researcher a $100,000 Bug Bounty 21
Software Bug In Bombardier Airliner Made Planes Turn the Wrong Way 34
New Fuzzing Tool Finds 26 USB Bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD 37
Chrome: 70% of All Security Bugs Are Memory Safety Issues 52
Complaining of 'Surplus' of iOS Exploits, Zerodium Stops Buying Them 37
Programmer Discovers Unprotected Access to State's Jobless Claims Portal's Admin Mode 50
Thunderbolt Bug Lets Hackers Steal Your Data in 'Five Minutes' 92
Oil Crash Busted Broker's Computers and Inflicted Big Losses 87
How a Facebook Bug Took Down Your Favorite iOS Apps 65
Newly Discovered macOS Image Capture Bug Can Fill Up Hard Drives With Empty Data 25
Soil Gets Its Smell From Bacteria Trying To Attract Invertebrates 11
Some Users Experiencing System Crashes on macOS 10.15.4, Especially During Large File Transfers 58
A Hacker Found a Way To Take Over Any Apple Webcam 52
OpenWRT Code-Execution Bug Puts Millions of Devices At Risk 60
Unpatched iOS Bug Blocks VPNs From Encrypting All Traffic 19
HPE Says Firmware Bug Will Brick Some SSDs Starting in October this Year 97
Facebook Bug Caused Legitimate News Articles About the Coronavirus To Be Marked As Spam 31
Robinhood Glitch Steals From the Poor, Gives To the Rich 71
Bug In WordPress Plugin Can Let Hackers Wipe Up To 200,000 Sites 6
Warning: Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 Security Update After Reports of Serious Bugs 103
Car 'Splatometer' Tests Reveal Huge Decline In Number of Insects 130
Suspicion and Anger Towards Microsoft Rises After Windows 10 Search Failure 173
Windows 7 Bug Prevents Users From Shutting Down Or Rebooting Computers 59
NASA Safety Panel Calls For Reviews After Second Starliner Software Problem 83
OpenBSD Mail Server Bug Allowed Remotely Executing Shell Commands As Root 39
Google Has Paid Security Researchers Over $21 Million for Bug Bounties, $6.5 Million in 2019 Alone 18
Maryland Bill Would Outlaw Ransomware, Keep Researchers From Reporting Bugs 85
Do Proof-of-Concept Exploits Do More Harm Than Good? 37
Cisco Warns: Patch This Critical Firewall Bug in Firepower Management Center 5
Mars Rover Temporarily Froze In Place Following Software Error 45
Sonos CEO Apologizes For Confusion, Says Legacy Products Will Work 'As Long As Possible' 38
CNCF, Google, and HackerOne Launch Kubernetes Bug Bounty Program 4
This Year's Y2K20 Bug Came Directly From 'A Lazy Fix' to the Y2K Bug 160
A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages 17