AQ'S Corner

Welcome to CyberBytes where we teach you about different Cybersecurity topics in small “bytes”. This week’s topic is Logic Bombs.

“Ever heard of a digital time bomb? That’s basically what a logic bomb is—except instead of going boom, it unleashes chaos when triggered! The first logic bomb? Rumored to be in the ’80s when an angry programmer sabotaged banking software to delete data if he wasn’t on payroll. Savage. But the most infamous one? The 1982 Siberian Pipeline Explosion—where a CIA-planted logic bomb allegedly made a Soviet pipeline explode like a scene from an action movie. Why should you care? Because logic bombs don’t just live in history books—hackers and rogue insiders still use them to wreak havoc today.