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malicious logic

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Hardware, firmware, or software that is intentionally included or inserted in a system for a harmful purpose.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

Hardware, firmware, or software that is intentionally included or inserted in a system to perform an unauthorized function or process that will have adverse impact on the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of an information system.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: malicious logics
possessive: malicious logic's
pluralpossessive: malicious logics'

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