History's Worst Software Bugs

• July 28, 1962 -- Mariner I space probe
• 1982 -- Soviet gas pipeline
• 1985-1987 -- Therac-25 medical accelerator
• 1988 -- Buffer overflow in Berkeley Unix finger daemon
• 1988-1996 -- Kerberos Random Number Generator
• January 15, 1990 -- AT&T Network Outage
• 1993 -- Intel Pentium floating point divide
• 1995/1996 -- The Ping of Death
• June 4, 1996 -- Ariane 5 Flight 501
• November 2000 -- National Cancer Institute, Panama City