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Foil 24 Some Attacking Concepts

From Remarks on Java and Internet Security Web Certificate CPS616 Enhancement -- Summer 1997 . by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Virus: A set of instructions that when executed inset themselves into other programs and presumably intend bad consequences.
2 Bacterium: A free standing program that replicates itself and causes harm by consuming resources
3 Worm: Similar to a bacterium that propagates over a network
4 Trapdoor: an undocumented entry point which is written into a program often for debugging purposes
  • A virus can install trapdoors as it propagates
5 Trojan horse: Instructions hidden in a seemingly useful program which can or do perform bad things. Viruses add Trojan horses to originally good programs
6 Logic bomb: malicious instructions that trigger on some particular event or time in the future

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