Most Expensive Software Bugs in History --- Explained

in #tech7 years ago (edited)


Software bugs have surely crippled a lot of products since the beginning of software industry. You can look at the Spectre and Meltdown bugs as well as WannaCry. All of these attacks are caused because of either a hardware or a software failure. So, today, we will be looking at the most expensive bugs in the history of software. These expensive software bugs do not include the latest software bugs that have been proven to be really expensive.

Sources:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/mplds2hq.pdf

https://mars.nasa.gov/msp98/news/news71.html

http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse.html

https://around.com/ariane.html

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/Ariane5accidentreport.html

https://hownot2code.com/2016/09/02/a-space-error-370-million-for-an-integer-overflow/


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