zero-day
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.61 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
adj
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.
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
noun
A vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; a zero-day vulnerability.
noun
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."
- "If your software is popular and has a high demand, you will want to defend against the "zero-day" cracker."
- "2005, Valdes et al, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection Automatically creating reliable signatures of zero-day exploits is the focus of intense research efforts."