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.

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.

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 ...

Heartbleed is the latest computer glitch affecting millions of internet users on thousands of popular websites. Cyber security experts say Heartbleed is a bug, not a virus. What's the difference?

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 ...

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.

But since its introduction last year, it has been plagued by bugs. Students have reported numerous problems with schedules and grades, and a Facebook group formed to exchange complaints about the ...

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.

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.