Meaning of zero-day | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
   not-comparable
2. Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
   not-comparable
3. 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.
   not-comparable
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
   not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Average residues of 1.44 and 2.18 mg/kg chlortetracycline were seen in liver and kidney, respectively, at zero-day withdrawal.”

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