Last week, an update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused the Windows operating system to crash in what was perhaps the largest IT failure in history. Industries across the board were hit, with ...

The task force investigating the cause of the August blackout that crippled much of the Northeast and parts of Canada concluded that a software failure at Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. “may have ...

Cybersecurity practitioners take a community-driven approach to solving problems. Security researchers share the vulnerabilities they find with the broader cybersecurity community, which allows ...

The field of software reliability has become increasingly vital as software systems underpin many aspects of modern life. Software reliability growth models (SRGMs) offer a quantitative means of ...

Students in Vincent St-Amour’s new Responsible Software Engineering course are analyzing case studies of software failures and exploring tools and techniques to prevent similar disasters Software ...

Following Sunday's running of the Grand Prix of Long Beach, IndyCar officials revealed that there was a software failure ...

The software has a bad spec. It wasn't actually supposed to shut down at limit X. It's a software bug. The matchine glitched out and didn't work as intended. Click to expand... As an old crotchety ...

Modern software systems rarely collapse all at once. More often, reliability erodes quietly-latency rises, throughput declines, and resources strain under growing demand. By the time users notice ...

It didn't take long at all. The ship launched on Tuesday and was intended to dock on Wednesday. A very conservative fail-safe routine tripped during an engine burn, leaving the ship in a safe lower ...

Everyone knows now how a flawed update crashed 8.5 million computers running the Windows version of CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity software — but what does the failure of one company’s software ...

KGB Chairman Charkov’s question to inorganic chemist Valery Legasov in HBO’s “Chernobyl” miniseries makes a good epitaph for the hundreds of software development, modernization, and operational ...