Our son, Eric, is a university computer network administrator. Eric said this kind of issue suggests a hardware problem - a "bug" - and advised removing and reinserting all the connectors and ...

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.

The words "bug" and "debug" soon became a standard part of the language of computer programmers. Among those working on the Mark II in 1947 was mathematician and computer programmer Grace Hopper, who ...

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.

Detecting bugs in computer programs is an expensive task, and there is no way of measuring their efficacy without knowing exactly how many go unnoticed. To tackle this problem, researchers have ...

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 ...

AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps AI models get slammed for producing sloppy ...

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 ...

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.