The task force responsible for investigating the cause of the Aug. 14 blackout that crippled most of the Northeast corridor of the U.S. and parts of Canada concluded that a software failure at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

When mission-critical software fails, business stops – and King V holds boards accountableIssued by EscrowsureJohannesburg, 12 Jan 2026 Anthony Watson, CEO, ESCROWSURE. Modern organisations are built ...

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 ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. We may never realize how much the world relies on software until it doesn’t work. That’s a ...