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 ...

Regarding the recent massive software failure caused by an upgrade from CrowdStrike, I think Congress should launch an investigation, led by a team of software engineers, to take a hard look at the ...

Talking to Robert N. Charette can be pretty depressing. Charette, who has been writing about software failures for this magazine for the past 20 years, is a renowned risk analyst and systems expert ...

The incident highlights the profound reliance on IT infrastructure and underscores the urgent need for robust system resilience and contingency planning. The unprecedented global IT outage on the ...

We may never realize how much the world relies on software until it doesn’t work. That’s a lesson that went into overdrive during the CrowdStrike software debacle that created the “largest IT outage ...

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 ...

You likely drive one of the affected Toyota Tundra or Sequoia models, and that possibility […] ...

Automakers are racing to turn cars into rolling computers, but the software problem that keeps surfacing is not flashy infotainment glitches. It is the quiet, systemic risk that a single bad update or ...

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 ...