• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Zero Day just means that you have zero days to fix it before it becomes a problem. Doesn’t mean that you actually take zero days to fix it.

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      4 months ago

      What? No it doesn’t, it means that the exploit has been known for zero days, aka it’s an unknown exploit.

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        4 months ago

        A zero-day (also known as a 0-day) is a vulnerability in software or hardware that is typically unknown to the vendor and for which no patch or other fix is available. The vendor has zero days to prepare a patch as the vulnerability has already been described or exploited.

        From wiki

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        4 months ago

        My understanding, zero day means when the exploit was discovered it was already being used in the wild. This is different from an exploit discovered by a bounty program or by security researchers.