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2. Logic bomb - Wikipedia

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   Logic bomb. A logic bomb is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met. For example, a programmer may hide a piece of code that starts deleting files (such as a salary database trigger ), should they ever be terminated from the company.

3. Jerusalem (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   Jerusalem is a logic bomb DOS virus first detected at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in October 1987. [ 1] On infection, the Jerusalem virus becomes memory resident (using 2kb of memory), and then infects every executable file run, except for COMMAND.COM. [ 2] COM files grow by 1,813 bytes when infected by Jerusalem and are not re-infected ...

4. Fork bomb - Wikipedia

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   Fork bomb. The concept behind a fork bomb — the processes continually replicate themselves, potentially causing a denial of service. In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system ...

5. Stuxnet - Wikipedia

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   Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm first uncovered in 2010 and thought to have been in development since at least 2005. Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition ( SCADA) systems and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of Iran. [ 2]

6. Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is any malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a standard program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy. [ 1]

7. Time bomb (software) - Wikipedia

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   The first use of a time bomb in software may have been in 1979 with the Scribe markup language and word processing system, developed by Brian Reid.Reid sold Scribe to a software company called Unilogic (later renamed Scribe Systems [2]), and agreed to insert a set of time-dependent functions (called "time bombs") that would deactivate freely copied versions of the program after a 90-day ...