Meaning

(computing) Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release..

Definitions by Sense

1. (computing) Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
2. (computer security) Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
3. (computer security) Of an exploit or its threat or an attack, benefiting from a newly found and yet unpatched or unmitigated flaw in software or hardware; using a zero-day vulnerability.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
5. (computer security) A vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; a zero-day vulnerability.
6. A day without obligations, where one does not worry about being productive.

Example Sentences

Back then, having "zero day warez" (brand new cracked games that are not even one day old yet) on your BBS first was a big status symbol.

Although it's had tons of publicity, the IE zero-day vulnerability is so far only a real threat to people running IE6 on Windows XP, and you have to wonder about the competence of the companies actually affected by it[.]

Zero-day flaws are a burgeoning commercial field in the underground hacker economy where some gangs work to order for commercial or government clients which want to break into systems.

The company says Mythos has revealed thousands of so-called zero-day—previously undiscovered—cyber vulnerabilities in every operating system and web browser, some of them up to 27 years old.

2005, Valdes et al, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection Automatically creating reliable signatures of zero-day exploits is the focus of intense research efforts.

If your software is popular and has a high demand, you will want to defend against the "zero-day" cracker.

Before discussing ways to counter zero-day attacks, let's begin with the definition of what a zero-day attack is. A zero-day attack is one that the vendor does not yet know about or hasn't been fixed.

Yet again, Adobe’s Flash plugin has been hit by a “zero-day” exploit, meaning that even users with a fully up-to-date installation of the software are vulnerable to attacks.

Word Forms

• zero day
• 0-day
• zero-days

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