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Gilbert E. Detillieux
gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Wed Jan 19 12:17:58 CST 2022
On 2022-01-19 12:04 p.m., eh at eduardhiebert.com wrote:
> Lastly, forgive my lack of knowing, what does "zero-day attack" mean?
Essentially, an attack that exploits a brand-new vulnerability, either
before it has been disclosed, or on the day of disclosure (hence 0-day).
The key point being that it's a vulnerability for which there likely
is not yet an update, patch, or even a mitigation strategy.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_(computing)
Gilbert
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