What is the origin of trojan horse virus?
The word ‘Trojan horse’ is generally attributed to Daniel Edwards of the NSA. He is given credit for identifying the attack form in the 1972 report “Computer Security Technology Planning Study”.[1] The term derives from the Trojan War, as mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid: worn out by the long siege, the attacking Greeks built a giant wooden horse, ostensibly a peace offering, and pretended to sail away, but in fact left soldiers hidden inside the statue. After the Trojans brought the horse inside the city walls, the soldiers emerged, (through an opening in the bottom of the horse) opened the gates to the Greek armies, and attacked the city of Troy. A classic example originated from computer pioneer Ken Thompson in his 1983 ACM Turing Award lecture. Thompson noted that it is possible to add code to the UNIX “login” command that would accept either the intended encrypted password or a specific special password, allowing a back door into the system with the latte
