From the articles: “The words “zero day” strike fear in military,
intelligence and corporate leaders. The term is used by hackers and security
specialists to describe a flaw discovered for the first time by a hacker that
can be exploited to break into a system.
In recent years, there has been one stunning revelation after the next about
how such unknown vulnerabilities were used to break into systems that were
assumed to be secure.” Read more
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