Re:0-day exploit for Internet Explorer in the wild
by knome on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @03:04PM
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I thought the term 0-day was meant to indicate a exploit conceived of and executed before even a full day had passed from the release of the software being attacked. It seemed to come from the game/software cracking scene where the sooner you crack it the more credential you get. It seems to be getting used to mean "new" or "previously unknown to anti-virus writers" or something relatively mundane. Certainly nothing to do with a "0th day" anything, unless I missed something in the link.
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Re:0-day exploit for Internet Explorer in the wild
by utnick on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @03:12PM
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In hacking circles I believe it means an exploit for a bug that a patch does not currently exist for, or maybe the bug isn't even publicly known.
Re:0-day exploit for Internet Explorer in the wild
by tlrobinson on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @05:35PM
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"A zero-day (or zero-hour) attack or threat is a computer threat that tries to exploit unknown, undisclosed or patchfree computer application vulnerabilities."
"The term zero-day can also be used to describe warez-group releases of pirated software on or before the release of the software."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-Day_Attack
I think "zero-day attack/exploit" is basically a euphemism for "oh shit, didn't see that one coming"
Re:0-day exploit for Internet Explorer in the wild
by Jem on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @04:10PM
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I thought so too.
I did wonder if it's being labelled as 0day because a different patch was released yesterday (but surely that would only work if the patch was directly related to the latest exploit?)
Of course, I could just be over-analysing.