When the Soviets installed the ICS, they were unaware that it now had an embedded
logic bomb and the timer was set.
If Tom doesn't return the program, a "
Logic Bomb" capable of destroying the world's vital computer systems, then all Tom has--his family, his friends, his life--will be brutally exterminated.
What the Soviets didn't know was that the CIA had planted a
logic bomb inside the system, and allowed the Soviets to steal it.
In 2006, Roger Duronio was found guilty of planting a
logic bomb at UBS Paine Webber, causing $3 million worth of damage and over 2,000 servers...
Altered circuitry, also known as "malicious firmware," can lie dormant in a piece of electrical equipment for several years until it recognizes a high degree of mobilization and lets loose a "
logic bomb" on the system, said Scott Borg, director of the U.S.
The insurance company's router and mail server crashed and the cost was in the tens of thousands of pounds.<p>More recently a system administrator, dissatisfied by his diminished role in a thriving defence manufacturing firm, planted a
logic bomb, which detonated, deleting the only remaining copy of a critical software from the company's server.
The former systems administrator received eight years in prison for planting a "
logic bomb" on company networks and then betting that the firm's stock would decline.
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Logic bomb - Malicious code left behind in an application that 'goes off' at a set time, for example, by deleting valuable files.
A "
logic bomb" planted in the company's systems is one weapon an employee could use to damage or disable its network, as well as delete vast stores of data.