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bug Last modified: Wednesday, July 16, 2003
An error or defect in software or hardware that causes a program to malfunction. Often a bug is caused by conflicts in software when applications try to run in tandem. According to folklore, the first computer bug was an actual bug. Discovered in 1945 at Harvard, a moth trapped between two electrical relays of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator caused the whole machine to shut down.
NTBugtraq Home page for a mailing list that discusses security exploits and bugs in Windows NT and its related applications. BugNet home page BugNet is an online resource for PC bugs, glitches, incompatibilities and fixes. Users can read and search bug/fix lists, alerts and reports, join discussion groups, submit a bug or see sample articles from the BugNet Online newsletter. Bugtraq Archives Searchable archive of the UNIX security mailing list.	Related Categories Applications Programming Related Terms Black Box Testing bomb crash glitch hang memory leak power cycling regression testing robust White Box Testing