Zero day
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See also: Security | Exploit | Warez
- Short form: 0-day
Hackerspeak for the very latest cracks, warez and exploits.
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Software Cracks
Originally, among there were "14-day" groups and then "7-day" groups who would rush to release the latest cracked warez within 14 or 7 days of the products appearing in store. 0-day goes even further and is considered elite, because it involves the crackers having contacts in the development, production, distribution or retail sectors who have access to pre-release software.
Remote Exploits
0-day is also used to describe exploits for bugs that have not yet been published and therefore do not have a fix yet. 0-day means the Bad Guys are a step ahead of the Good Guys.
Defending against a Zero Day Attack
Technically, there is no defense against a Zero Day attack apart from disconnection. However:
- Chosing an operating system and software with a very low instance of bugs
- Not letting your systems be publicly accessable.
If you discover a bug that no one else knows about, please behave like a White Hat Hacker and give that bug to the project leader of whatever software program that belongs to. If you have a software company or work for one and you discover a bug, please see "security through obscurity" for some possible insight on what to do and what not to do.
