We hear all the time in popular press (and increasingly, in government publications + scholarly articles) about how "cyberattacks" make us insecure, because we have so many vulnerabilities (mostly from a user perspective, but also on occasion from a coding perspective). I'm curious -- are there cases where hacking attempts (either in the commercial or the security sector) failed because attacker's code had bugs? I'm assuming this has probably happened frequently, and I'm surprised I've never seen anything about this.
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Does this count? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/snowden-nsa-syria-internet-outage-civil-war – tlng05 Dec 22 '14 at 04:40
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1I also recall that Stuxnet was only discovered when a bug in it caused a PC to repeatedly reboot. – tlng05 Dec 22 '14 at 04:47