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November 28, 2009

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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.

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Home page for a mailing list that discusses security exploits and bugs in Windows NT and its related applications.

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