The term ‘bugs in a computer’ had been used before, but after Grace Hopper wrote in her diary “first actual case of bug being found” the term became really popular, and that’s why we are ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Microsoft 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.

She was one of the first computer programmers, and helped develop COBOL, a language for data processors that pioneered the use of a language closer to spoken English than machine code.

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 ...

Internet-security experts have crafted a fix for a new computer bug in security software used by all modern Web browsers. But deploying the fix could break the Internet for thousands of websites.

The computer security industry has a dirty secret: If an 'independent' code review says a product is totally secure, you aren't hearing the full story Behavioral psychiatrists say that virtually ...

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 ...