Vulnerability
vulnerability:software_bug
Also: AT&T software bug
Coding error involving the word “break” that caused AT&T computer switches to crash.
Coding error involving the word “break” that caused AT&T computer switches to crash.
“the outage was caused by a bug in their own software”
“put in the word ‘break’ in a wrong part of the code”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | INVOLVES | AT&T outage of 1990 | Explicit | 169 |
AT&T outage of 1990 INVOLVES Software bug
The AT&T outage was caused by a bug in AT&T's own software, specifically a misplaced 'break' statement.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“AT&T admitted very publicly that the outage was caused by a bug in their own software.”
“One of their programmers put in the word ‘break’ in a wrong part of the code”