Trojan horse n.
[coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan
Edwards] A malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised
as something benign, such as a directory lister, archiver, game, or
(in one notorious 1990 case on the Mac) a program to find and
destroy viruses! See back door, virus, worm
phage, mockingbird.
[coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan
Edwards] A malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised
as something benign, such as a directory lister, archiver, game, or
(in one notorious 1990 case on the Mac) a program to find and
destroy viruses! See back door, virus, worm
phage, mockingbird.
Related:
- Trojan horse: [coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards]
n.
A malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised... - phage n.
A program that modifies other programs or
databases in unauthorized ways;
esp. one that propagates a virus or Trojan horse... - phage: n. A program that modifies other programs or databases in
unauthorized ways;
esp. one that propagates a {virus} or {Trojan horse}... - worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The
Shockwave Rider",
via XEROX PARC] n. A program that propagates itself... - worm n.
[from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel
"The Shockwave Rider",
via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself... - virus n.
[from the obvious analogy with biological viruses,
via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs... - AIDS: /aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a
{glob} pattern that matches,
but is not limited to, Apple), this condition is... - mockingbird n.
Software that intercepts communications
(especially login transactions) between users and hosts and
provides system-like responses to the users while saving their
responses (especially account IDs and passwords).
A special case of Trojan horse... - cracker n.
One who breaks security on a system. Coined
ca.
1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse...
From the same category:
- Slowlaris /slo'-lahr-is/ n.
[Usenet; poss. from the
variety of sloth called a "slow loris".
The variant `Slowlartus' is also common, related... - wound around the axle adj.
In an infinite loop.
Often used by older computer types... - modulo /mod'yu-loh/ prep.
Except for. An
overgeneralization of mathematical terminology;
one can consider saying that 4 equals 22 except... - careware /keir'weir/ n.
A variety of shareware for which either the author... - bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n.
1. obs. The bits produced by
the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and
400 respectively),
resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. ...
