zero-day

See also: zero day

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zero-day (not comparable)

  1. (computing) Of warez: released less than a day after the official product release.
    • 2020, Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories:
      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.
  2. (computing) (of a vulnerability) newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals
  3. (computing) (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
    • 2003, John Viega, Matt Messier, Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++:
      If your software is popular and has a high demand, you will want to defend against the "zero-day" cracker.
    • 2014, Michael Gregg, CASP CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Study Guide: Exam CAS-002‎:
      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.
    • 2005, Valdes et al, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
      Automatically creating reliable signatures of zero-day exploits is the focus of intense research efforts.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero,‎ day.
    Average residues of 1.44 and 2.18 mg/kg chlortetracycline were seen in liver and kidney, respectively, at zero-day withdrawal.

Noun

zero-day (plural zero-days)

  1. (computing, idiomatic) vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; zero-day vulnerability
    New Internet Explorer zero-day exploited in Hong Kong attacks
    These days, however, more zero days are being used and discovered.
    All the four zero-days originally were reported to Microsoft, affecting Internet Explorer on the desktop.

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