Zero-day

Quick meaning: Zero-day is an adjective meaning (computing) Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
2. (computer security) A vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; a zero-day vulnerability.
3. A day without obligations, where one does not worry about being productive.
4. (computer security) Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
5. (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.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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

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-days

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include closed-source, redistributable, downlevel, preloaded, nearline, user-defined.

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