Logic Bomb (Noun)
Meaning
A set of instructions inserted into a program that are designed to execute (or `explode') if a particular condition is satisfied; when exploded it may delete or corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other harmful effects; "a disgruntled employee planted a logic bomb".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- A disgruntled employee planted a logic bomb in the company's database system that would delete all records if their login credentials were removed.
- The IT department discovered a logic bomb in the payroll software that would have caused a month's worth of payments to be lost if it had not been detected.
- After the programmer was fired, it was found that he had embedded a logic bomb in the company's mainframe that would have crashed the entire system on a specific date.
- The company's cybersecurity team was tasked with finding and disabling the logic bomb that had been inserted into their system by a former employee.
- The logic bomb was designed to trigger a false alarm in the system's security monitoring software, making it seem like a serious breach had occurred.