Bug Stories

Why Windows 7 Took Forever To Load If You Had a Solid Background 57
Chrome To Patch Decades-Old 'Browser History Sniffing' Flaw That Let Sites Peek At Your History 34
Were Still More UK Postmasters Also Wrongly Prosecuted Over Accounting Bug? 48
Microsoft Uses AI To Find Flaws In GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox Bootloaders 57
Glitches for Windows 11 Update Include Breaking File Explorer 57
Final Fantasy iOS Game Shuts Down Over Unfixable Bug 37
Zyxel Firewalls Borked By Buggy Update, On-Site Access Required For Fix 18
'Y2K Seems Like a Joke Now, But in 1999 People Were Freaking Out' 134
Windows 11 Installation Media Bug Causes Security Update Failures 68
Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in Junk Bug Reports Written By AI 91
Apple Will Pay Security Researchers Up To $1 Million To Hack Its Private AI Cloud 6
Bug Bounty Programs Take Root In Russia 17
'AI-Powered Remediation': GitHub Now Offers 'Copilot Autofix' Suggestions for Code Vulnerabilities 18
Sonos Delays Two New Products As It Races To Fix Buggy App 24
Why DARPA is Funding an AI-Powered Bug-Spotting Challenge 43
After Crowdstrike Outage, FSF Argues There's a Better Way Forward 139
Intel Blames 13th, 14th Gen CPU Crashes on Software Bug 59
NYSE Investigating 'Technical Issue' That Showed Berkshire Hathaway Share Price Dropping 99% 33
Troubling iOS 17.5 Bug Reportedly Resurfacing Old Deleted Photos 58
Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users 15
New 'Loop DoS' Attack May Impact Up to 300,000 Online Systems 10
Microsoft Confirms Windows Server Security Update Caused Memory Leak, 'Unscheduled' Reboots 35
macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug 'Destroys Saved Versions In iCloud Drive' 32
Google Paid $10 Million In Bug Bounty Rewards Last Year 17
Firefly Software Snafu Sends Lockheed Satellite on Short-Lived Space Safari 25
OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Has New(ish) Data Corruption Bug 16
Fujitsu is Sorry That Its Software Helped Send Innocent People To Prison 143
Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithm KyberSlash Patched After Side-Channel Attack Discovered 12
Despite 16-Year Glitch, UK Law Still Considers Computers 'Reliable' By Default 96
AI-Assisted Bug Reports Are Seriously Annoying For Developers 29
Microsoft Releases Downloadable Tool To Remove Unwanted HP Printer Software 35
Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack 69
Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can 'Hear' Them 22
A Windows Update Bug Is Renaming Everyone's Printers To HP M101-M106 55
OpenZFS Fixes Data Corruption Issue 39
Intel Fixes High-Severity CPU Bug That Causes 'Very Strange Behavior' 22
NY AG Issues $450K Penalty To US Radiology After Unpatched Bug Led To Ransomware 25
Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software To Fix Bugs 74
Microsoft Disputes Severity of Four Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Found in Exchange by Trend Micro 26
Millions of Fruit Flies Will Be Dropped On Los Angeles 84
Asahi Linux Goes From Apple Silicon Port Project To macOS Bug Hunters 33
Google Promises a Rescue Patch For Android 14's 'Ransomware' Bug 33
Android 14 Storage Bug Has Users Locked Out of Their Devices 18
T2 Linux Discovers (Now Patched) AMD Zen 4 Invalid Opcode Speculation Bug 13
Unity Dev Group Dissolves After 13 Years Over 'Completely Eroded' Company Trust 23
Windows File Explorer Gets Nostalgic Speed Boost Thanks To One Weird Bug 39
AMD 'Zenbleed' Bug Leaks Data From Zen 2 Ryzen, EPYC CPUs 40
Researchers Discovered a New Linux Kernel 'StackRot' Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 36
Windows 11 Update Breaks Chrome for Some Antivirus Software Users 49
Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find Kernel Bug 32
Data Stolen Through Flaw in MOVEit Transfer, Researchers Say 15
DEF CON To Set Thousands of Hackers Loose On LLMs 18
Google Releases Emergency Chrome Security Update 29
Texas Dad Says 'Find My iPhone' Glitch is Directing Angry Strangers to his Home 161
Google Pay Bug Accidentally Sends Users Free Money 17
Google Pixel Bug Lets You 'Uncrop' the Last Four Years of Screenshots 29
Nvidia Driver Bug Might Make Your CPU Work Harder After You Close Your Game 13
Scientist Finds Rare Jurassic Era Bug At Arkansas Walmart, Kills It and Puts It On a Pin 41
YouTube Video Causes Pixel Phones To Instantly Reboot 55
Security Researchers Warn of a 'New Class' of Apple Bugs 30
NetGear Warns Users To Patch Recently Fixed Wi-Fi Router Bug 7
Mozilla Just Fixed an 18-Year-Old Firefox Bug 61
Linux Kernel Security Bug Allows Remote Code Execution for Authenticated Remote Users 51
Patched Windows Bug Was Actually a Dangerous Wormable Code-Execution Vulnerability 20
Corsair Says Bug, Not Keylogger, Behind Some K100 Keyboards' Creepy Behavior 35
First-Ever Study Shows Bumble Bees 'Play' 32
Pentagon Is Far Too Tight With Its Security Bug Bounties 23
Earth Has 20 Quadrillion Ants, Study Says 82
Bug in iPhone 14 Pro Max Causes Camera To Physically Fail, Users Say 66
Scientists Create Cyborg Cockroaches Controlled By Solar-Powered Backpacks 30
Microsoft Investigates Bug That Mistakenly Flags Chromium-Based Apps as Malware 44
Google's New Bug Bounties Include Their Custom Linux Kernel's Experimental Security Mitigations 5
Windows 11 Encryption Bug Could Cause Data Loss, Temporary Slowdowns On Newer PCs 28
Twitter Confirms Vulnerability Exposed Data of Anonymous Account Owners 17
Microsoft Outlook Is Crashing When Reading Uber Receipt Emails 45
Google Chrome Security Update Fixes 'High Risk' Flaws 10
An Actively Exploited Microsoft Zero-Day Flaw Still Has No Patch 38
Google is Rolling Out Chrome 102 with 32 Security Fixes, One Critical 10
Google Docs Crashes On Seeing 'And. And. And. And. And.' 63
Chrome's Latest Update: 30 Security Fixes and Bug Details Kept 'Restricted' 28
After Microsoft Releases Patch for RPC Exploit: What the Honeypot Saw 9
Former NSA Computer Scientist: Patching Vulnerabilities Gives False Sense of Security 112
A Bug in Google Messages Might Be Draining Your Battery 24
AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking 73
Millions of Palm-Sized, Flying Spiders Could Invade the East Coast 53
How a Simple Security Bug Became a University Campus 'Master Key' 73
Linux Developers Patch Bugs Faster Than Microsoft, Apple, and Google, Study Shows 43
ExpressVPN Offering $100,000 To First Person Who Hacks Its Servers 28
Intel Fails To Get Spectre, Meltdown Chip Flaw Class-action Suit Tossed Out 32
Microsoft Released an Out-of-Band Update to Rollback January Patch's VPN Issues 18
T-Mobile Says It Has 'Not Broadly Blocked' iCloud Private Relay, Blames iOS 15.2 Bug For Errors 11
Honda Clocks Are Stuck 20 Years In The Past And There Isn't A Fix 117
An Apple HomeKit Bug Can Send iOS Devices Into a Death Spiral 22
'Year 2022' Bug Breaks Email Delivery For Microsoft Exchange On-Premise Servers 146
Fisher-Price's Chatter Phone Has a Simple But Problematic Bluetooth Bug 27
Microsoft Notifies Customers of Azure Bug That Exposed Their Source Code 9
Amazon Issues False Copyright Strike Against New World YouTuber for Reporting Bug 70
Software Flaw Sparks Global Race To Patch Bug 60
Google Says Bug With Teams and Android Can Cause 911 Calls To Fail 44
Really Stupid 'Smart Contract' Bug Let Hackers Steal $31 Million In Digital Coin 55
Rockstar Admits GTA Remasters 'Did Not Meet Our Own Standards of Quality' 25
Google Chrome 96 Breaks Twitter, Discord, Video Rendering and More 19
'Trojan Source' Bug Threatens the Security of All Code 88
Indie Dev Finds That Linux Users Generate More, Better Bug Reports 58
Bitcoin's Price Crashed 87% On Binance.US Thanks To a Bug 21
Intel Open-sources AI-powered Tool To Spot Bugs in Code 26
GPSD Bug Will Switch Your Time-Keeping Systems To March 2002 This Weekend, Unless You Update 60
AMD and Microsoft Issue Fixes For Ryzen CPU Slowdowns On Windows 11 34
LibreOffice, OpenOffice Bug Allows Hackers To Spoof Signed Docs 7
Researcher Refuses Telegram's Bounty Award, Discloses Auto-Delete Bug 6
iOS 15 Messages Bug Causes Saved Photos to Be Deleted 37
Pixel 3 and 3 XL Phones Are Getting Stuck In EDL Mode and Seemingly Bricked 72
'No Service' Bug Hits Some IOS 14.7.1 Users After Updating Their IPhones 26
Linux Glibc Security Fix Created a Nastier Linux Bug 74
Everyone Cites That 'Bugs Are 100x More Expensive To Fix in Production' Research, But the Study Might Not Even Exist 118
MITRE Updates List of Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Bugs 16
16-Year-Old HP Printer-Driver Bug Impacts Millions of Windows Machines 106
Nasty Linux Systemd Security Bug Revealed 203
Will a New Law Help the Chinese Government Stockpile Zero-Days? 27
Facebook Announces Time Bonus Payouts For Bug Hunters 9
Dell SupportAssist Bugs Put Over 30 Million PCs At Risk 27
Peleton Patches Vulnerability In Camera That Allowed Spying on Riders 20
Patch Released for 7-Year-Old Privilege Escalation Bug In Linux Service Polkit 39
Windows Defender Bug Fills Windows 10 Boot Drive With Thousands of Files 64
First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released In the United States 89
How Faulty Software Landed Dozens of UK Postmasters In Prison 64
A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses 15
Counter Strike' Bug Allows Hackers To Take Over a PC With a Steam Invite 26
In Serious Incident, Software Glitch Miscalculates the Weight of Three UK Flights 93
OpenSSL Fixes a High-Severity Flaw That Allowed Crashing of Servers 24
Three Flaws in the Linux Kernel Since 2006 Could Grant Root Privileges 94
Torvalds Warns the World: Don't Use the Linux 5.12-rc1 Kernel 124
Brave Privacy Bug Exposed Tor Onion URLs To Your DNS Provider 16
iRobot Says It'll Be a Few Weeks Until It Can Clean Up Its Latest Roomba Software Update Mess 58
Software Bug Keeping Hundreds Of Inmates In Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates 159
A Bug in Lenovo System Update Service is Driving Up CPU Usage and Prompting Fan Noise in Laptops and Desktops, Customers Say 50
Recent Root-Giving Sudo Bug Also Impacts macOS 24
How DNSpooq Attacks Could Poison DNS Cache Records 9
Jamie Zawinski Calls Cinnamon Screensaver Lock-Bypass Bug 'Unconscionable' 172
Windows 10 Bug Corrupts Your Hard Drive On Seeing This File's Icon 96
NVIDIA Fixes High Severity Flaws Affecting Windows, Linux devices 24
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
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

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