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.

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

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.

Learn what a computer bug is and how to check for them with this KS1 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 1 and 2.

But the gist of the tale, minor inaccuracies and all, is still a fascinating window into the way the long arc of computer history still affects us today in small and large ways, be they the ...

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 ...

If you think Apple computers are safer than their Windows-powered cousins, think again. Security researchers say they’ve crafted a computer worm that can burrow deep inside Mac computers, beyond ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A computer bug named LogJam that has roots in 20-year-old U.S. government policies could make upwards of 20,000 websites unavailable as security fixes are rolled out. The bug's ...