May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:25 AM

Comments
Post a comment









Remember personal info?