By “bug” I mean hardware problems, program errors or even real bugs. A common hardware bug is when electrical contacts in a computer become oxidized or work themselves loose.

Saying that, the term "bug" started to become popular in the post-war years to describe a computer malfunction after an incident in 1947.

Apparently we call them bugs because Grace Hopper found the first computer “bug”: a moth stuck between the relays on the Harvard Mark II on September 9, 1945.

So why is it called the Heartbleed Bug? Before an SSL connection is established, the sending computer sends a signal, called the heartbeat, to the other computer to make sure it’s online.

NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth ...

The bug snatched a copy of the owner's e-mail address book and his computer's file directory structure, then e-mailed the pilfered data back to the laptop owner to show the level of access it had ...

Researchers have developed a new system that repairs dangerous software bugs by automatically importing functionality from other, more secure applications.

Microsoft Corp. took the unusual step of warning that a computer bug it has now patched could be used by a cyber weapon similar to the WannaCry worm, which spread across the globe two years ago.